I am trying to use a Seagate ST3300601 CB-RK (300GB) external USB hard-drive on a system running Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5. When I plug in the device, Linux recognizes it but during boot, I receive this error:
mount dev/sdb1 is not a valid block device
What do I need to do to get Linux to recognize and support this drive?
Thanks.
fdisk and fstab output:
===== fdisk -l =====
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 465 3835081 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 * 8280 9729 11647125 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 466 2207 13992615 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 2208 8279 48773340 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 2208 3589 11100883+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 3590 4830 9968301 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 4831 6138 10506478+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 6139 6950 6522358+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 6951 8279 10675161 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Disk /dev/sdb: 8 MB, 8388608 bytes
8 heads, 32 sectors/track, 64 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 256 * 512 = 131072
Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table
===== fstab =====
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/archive /archive ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 1
none /proc proc defaults 1 1
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 1 1
LABEL=/share /share ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/usr /usr ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/var /var ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/sda7 swap swap default 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/exthd auto defaults, users, auto 0 0
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