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["Sheldon Isaac" <sisaac AT netaxs.com>]

> --------------------
> mount /dev/hdb6 /mnt
> --------------------
> That partition will then be available under the /mnt directory.

Thanks a lot to you and the others who tried to help.

So far the first HD is fine. But cfdisk /dev/hdb gives the below:

hdb5 FAT16                              378.37
hdb6 Win 95 FAT32       7633.06
hdb7 Win 95 FAT32       12551.78

Despite that, mount /dev/hdb7 /mnt doesn't work
(there isn't a hdb7 in /dev/  ; the highest one is hdb4)
                                
Partition Table for /dev/hdb

         ---Starting---      ----Ending----    Start Number of
 # Flags Head Sect Cyl   ID  Head Sect Cyl    Sector  Sectors
-- ----- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -------- ---------
 1  0x00    0    1    1 0x0F  254   63 1023    16065  40162500
 2  0x00    0    0    0 0x00    0    0    0        0         0
 3  0x00    0    0    0 0x00    0    0    0        0         0
 4  0x00    0    0    0 0x00    0    0    0        0         0
 5  0x00    1    1    1 0x06  254   63   46       63    738927
 6  0x00    1    1   47 0x0B  254   63  974       63  14908257
 7  0x00    1    1  975 0x0B  254   63 1023       63  24515127

Excerpts from dmesg:

Linux version 2.2.16 (root@bigkitty)
(gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release))
#22 Fri Jun 16 16:51:24 PDT 2000 Detected 300678 kHz processor.
<SNIP>

hda: IBM-DTTA-350640, 6197MB w/468kB Cache, CHS=790/255/63
hdb: IBM-DTLA-307020, 19623MB w/1916kB Cache, CHS=2501/255/63
hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 4096kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.10
hdd: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
<SNIP>

Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 >
 hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 >

<SNIP>

RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 60k freed

(some of the below might have been from my attempts to mount 
/dev/hdb4 or whatever)      

attempt to access beyond end of device
03:44: rw=0, want=1, limit=0
dev 03:44 blksize=1024 blocknr=0 sector=0 size=1024 count=1
FAT bread failed
UMSDOS: msdos_read_super failed, mount aborted.
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:44: rw=0, want=1, limit=0
dev 03:44 blksize=1024 blocknr=0 sector=0 size=1024 count=1
FAT bread failed
attempt to access beyond end of device
03:44: rw=0, want=1, limit=0
dev 03:44 blksize=1024 blocknr=0 sector=0 size=1024 count=1
FAT bread failed