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.and just so yo udont blame me for wiping the wring device.<br />
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hda - pri. master<br />
hdb - pri. slave<br />
hdc - sec. master<br />
hdd - sec. slave
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.and just so yo udont blame me for wiping the wring device.

hda - pri. master
hdb - pri. slave
hdc - sec. master
hdd - sec. slave

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I have a hard disk which is in FAT16 and it contains an Win95 OS. Now I have just attached the FAT 16 hard disk to my PC(which already have a linux OS) as secondary master.<br />
And now I want to format it as ext 2 format but I can't.<br />
I have typed:<br />
&quot;mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/drive2&quot;<br />
and it results:<br />
&quot;mount: block device /dev/hdb1 is write protected, mounting read-only&quot;<br />
&quot;hdb1: tray open or device not ready&quot;<br />
&quot;hdb1: tray open or device not ready&quot;<br />
&quot;mount: mount point /mnt/drive2 not exist&quot;<br />
<br />
Then what's the problems?<br />
And what should I do now?<br />
Pls help!!!
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I have a hard disk which is in FAT16 and it contains an Win95 OS. Now I have just attached the FAT 16 hard disk to my PC(which already have a linux OS) as secondary master.
And now I want to format it as ext 2 format but I can't.
I have typed:
"mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/drive2"
and it results:
"mount: block device /dev/hdb1 is write protected, mounting read-only"
"hdb1: tray open or device not ready"
"hdb1: tray open or device not ready"
"mount: mount point /mnt/drive2 not exist"

Then what's the problems?
And what should I do now?
Pls help!!!

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