can't access my second hdd in dapper

[su8z3ro]

I just installed kubuntu dapper and i can't seem to get the second hdd configured. it is formatted with ext3. and it is set up as slave on the primary ide.
it worked in ubuntu but unfortunately i formatted the hdd when i installed kubuntu. it shows up under disk drives along with the master but it can't be enabled.

any help would be appreciated

Su8z3ro

[aysiu]

Re: can't access my second hdd in dapper

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/mountlinux.html

[MrENoon]

Re: can't access my second hdd in dapper

What do you mean by you can't access it?
Is the drive not mounting at all, or is it that you can't write to it, or read from it?

If it is the latter try this.

sudo chown -R yourusername your drives mount point

so something like sudo chown -R user1 /media/a
if it is not mounting at boot first try to mount it manually

sudo mount /dev/hda2 /mnt

if it mounts then you need to edit /etc/fstab so that it will mount at boot.
add this line

 /dev/hda2    /z/2      ext3  defaults    0    2

your drive is probably hda2 but it could be something else.
and change /z/2 to the directory you want to mount the drive to.

after mounting temporarily or permently you will still probably need to change owner ship with chown.

[su8z3ro]

Re: can't access my second hdd in dapper

i got it working. very useful info. thanks for the help i'm sure there will be many more questions to come but for now all is well.

su8z3ro