--Post results of ' fdisk -l '... Also make sure the drive is connected properly. If you can see it from other distros then I'd be baffled.

Quote Originally Posted by JohnnyH
Thanks for the replies.
Yes, I've done mkdir, and with and without explicit -t ext2.
Why so many distros & discs/partitions? "...let a thousand flowers bloom...". One of the joys of GNU/Linux is choice, to see which I like best for whatever application.
For various reasons I have W-98, W-NT and DOS on the PC as well (flame-bait, any-one?!) and keeping my 'older' discs gives more flexibility for their installation constraints, and places to put /boot partitions below the 1024 cylinder limits, etc.
I had only wondered whether knoppix has been 'customised' in some way, so that unlike all other distros I've found it does not 'see' hdc.
JohnnyH