I currently have knnopmyth installed on a 150Gig Maxtor IDE drive. I wish to mount an additional hard drive (SATA) to /myth/video. My origional install used the tv <enter> / Auto Install. *i have included the reason for this at the end - aka it's not important to the question.

I created a directory called testmount to test my mounting ability and have tried several permutations of "mount /dev/sda# /testmount" and "mount /dev/hda# /testmount". However these tend to return either "no device" or "invalid ..."

My question is this: Do any of you see a problem with this? In other words, Do I need to fiddle with kernel modules to get this to work or does this seem like a controller type issue? If playing with kernel modules is necessary, ANY help with that that anyone can offer would be more than appreciated (especially with specific commands).

In a side note: I was able using the exact same setup to mount and unmount my sata drive under Suse after having installed the appropriate kernel modules on origional install.

*Reason: Using an additional hard drive for video is desired should the operating system fail, require a reinstall, or a hard core update I don't want to loose my video data.

- Did you format and make a file system on the drive first?

- Did you add an appropriate entry in the /etc/fstab file?

Yes the drive has proper formatting as evidenced that it mounts fine under Suse (note I rolled the kernel my self and made sure sata support was installed).

I have note edited the fstab file yet. There is no point in doing this if one is not able to mount the drive manually. For example if mount /dev/sda1 /test does not work then adding that entry into fstab will also not work.

The issue here is with two possibilities: 1. the kernel is not configured by default to support sata mounting. OR 2. the sata drive is not to be mounted using sda or hda. OR 3. there is some other issue possibly related to (drivers, PCI SATA card support etc..).

I am looking to eliminate possibilities by getting feedback from someone who is more familiar with mounting SATA drives in knnopix than I am.

Well if you know enough to do those things then presumably you know enough to check /var/log/messages after a fresh boot to see if the drives are detected by the kernel and as what devices. For a quick summary try this:

Knowing what devices and filesystem types the kernel sees should eliminate the "poke and hope" mounting across a large group of random devices.

Also providing us with the output of that command as well as the exact error messages from the mount command would make diagnosing your problem much easier. Otherwise we're playing "Doctor it hurts."