On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:44:38PM +0100, Paula Fernandes wrote:
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> 
> I need to mount a disk with a windows system to recover some files from
> the disk. I plug it into the secondary IDE has slave.
> 
> I have created a new directory this way:
> 
> mkdir /mnt/alf
> 
> Then I try to mount the disk this way:
> 
> mount /dev/hdd /mnt/alf
> 
> And I get this answer: /dev/hdd is not a valid block device
> 
> Then I try /dev/hdd0 and hdd1, and the answer still the same.
Are you sure hdd is the right device?
Do you see the drive in with 'cat /proc/devices' ?
> 
> 
> Do I need to give any other instruction the the mount command?
Usually not. Mount complains about a device which isn't there.

regards
Klaus


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