Problems adding a second hard drive

I added a second hard drive to an older EIDE system, but I cannot get a
file system on it. This is not my primary drive, but a second drive.

Here is what I did:

1. Ran fdisk and wrote the following partition table:
spongebob:~# fdisk -l /dev/hdb

Disk /dev/hdb: 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/hdb1               1       14593   117218241   85  Linux extended
spongebob:~#

2. I then tried to create a file system:
spongebob:~# mke2fs -cjv -L patrick /dev/hdb1
mke2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
/dev/hdb1: Invalid argument passed to ext2 library while setting up
superblock
spongebob:~#

I tried all sorts of parameter combinations and always get the same
error. I took out the '-L patrick'; I took out the 'v', I took out the
'c'. My final test:
spongebob:~# mke2fs -j /dev/hdb1
mke2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
/dev/hdb1: Invalid argument passed to ext2 library while setting up
superblock
spongebob:~#

So, what am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

Mark
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