I've recently installed Fedora Core 3 on a spare hard disk. My set up looks like this:
2x 120GB SATA drives in RAID 0 with Windows XP installed (NTFS) -- 1 partition
1 x 80GB IDE drive with 4 paritions (3 ext3, 1 FAT32)
On installing FC3 the first time, I found that even though it recognised my Promise RAID controller, it couldn't see the two drives as being "RAIDed": it wanted to address them separately as SDA and SDB. This meant that I couldn't read any files off my Windows drive.
To get around this, I reinstalled Fedora, including a 5GB FAT32 partition on the Linux disk. This would allow me to copy files between the two OSes. Now this partition shows up perfectly well in Windows -- it was autodetected and just sits there as drive D:
Unfortunately, I can't seem to find it at all in Fedora! When I've used Linux before, any Windows paritions have always shown up in the /mnt directory. However, the only thing that appears in this directory is a folder called cdrecord, which (surprise surprise) points to my CD drive.
Does anybody have any idea where my missing drive is? Surely I don't have to manually mount a FAT32 drive, do I?
Running fdisk -l (as root, which I forgot before
) gives the following:
Disk /dev/hda: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 14 650 5116702+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda3 651 10011 75192232+ 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 29185 234428481 7 HPFS/NTFS
Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table
Reps for anybody who can help!