formatting

[Chemist]

Hi

I've formatted a second hard drive with qtparted to fat32 file system. I can see the drive listed but i get an error message "unknown error occured" Do I have to mount the drive or edit the fstab file

will@will-desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Password:

Disk /dev/hda: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4998 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 4834 38829073+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 4835 4998 1317330 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 4835 4998 1317298+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/hdb: 123.5 GB, 123522416640 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 15017 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
ystem

[Chemist]

Re: formatting

just managed to get it going, I was being very stupid!!!