Okay I have a bit of a mystery here basically I have an old PC with Windows 98 and Red Hat 5.2 / Windows 95 on different hard drives and Knoppix refuses to mount any partition. I have the detection logs (edited) maybe someone could explain my problem and how to fix it??

RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 100000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:01.1
SIS5513: chipset revision 208
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SIS5513: SiS5597 ATA 33 controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hdaio, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdcio, hddio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: Maxtor 6E040L0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: SAMSUNG SV0644A, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1210A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: Memorex 482E CD-ROM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Probing IDE interface ide2...
Probing IDE interface ide3...
Probing IDE interface ide4...
Probing IDE interface ide5...
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 80293248 sectors (41110 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 < >
hdb: max request size: 128KiB
hdb: 12504240 sectors (6402 MB) w/490KiB Cache, CHS=13232/15/63
hdb: cache flushes not supported
hdb: unknown partition table
hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
hdd: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache

VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev hda.
FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda.
Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev hdb.
FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hdb.

FAT: invalid media value (0x00)
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda1.

hda contain 3 fat partitions (Windows 98se)
hdb1 contains ext2 (Red Hat 5.2)
and hdb3 contains fat (Windows 95)

Richard S.