???accessing hde7, my 'keeper' partition

[Jared Anderson]

On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:47:43 -0700 (PDT), ec writes:
>Last time I shutdown this computer, I could mount hde7
>which has my 'keeper' stuff in it. Today, I get error
>message that is on the links below. I CAN mount all
>other partitions..just hde7 giving this error. 
>
>It couldn't wait till the usp package arrives. I need
>to access the tracking number from kde's kwrite. Dang
>it!
>
>Being a two year or so 'noob', I thought I had
>everything working from knoppix and this a 'first
>time' failure ever in my limited experience. The
>second link was alluded to by the error/refusal
>message. I first tried it from the 'fromhd=/dev/hde8'
>mirrored cd, then now from cdrom directly, same error.
>
>What do I need to do to access that partition? Even
>doing a cdrecord...from an earlier knoppix..3.8/.9
>cdrecord is broken for me.
>
><lightbulb> May not work, but will down and up with
>3.6 cdrom and see if it opens hde7.
>
>Reason for hde for the hd parts, the old puter had a
>pio4 bios ide controller and I upped the hd to a
>ata100 which needed a 'modern' controller..so there is
>a secondary pci controller card, and has been working
>fine for 1.5 years. No problem other than it see hde
>as the hd point. hda has the cdrom only running off
>it.
>
>
>
>http://www.geocities.com/eculbert/linux/snapshot1.png
>
>http://www.geocities.com/eculbert/linux/snapshot2.jpg
>

What does the command 'fdisk -l' yield?
What does the command 'dmesg | tail' yield?


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