OK, my new linux box is up and running, sort of.

This is the scenario:

* I installed Ubuntu 11.4 on the new 1TB (SATA) disk that came with

the machine.

* I have a bunch of ATA disks from my now-dead old Ubuntu computer. I

have installed two of them internally (one of them is still NTFS), and

the rest externally with some cheap HDD enclosures.

I had made an error when I first installed the two internal ATA drives

-- I had the jumper settings wrong. I thought that was why I couldn't

mount one of them. Otherwise, everything seemed OK. Well, except for

Samba -- a couple of samba shares, well, wouldn't.

So, I took it apart and fixed the drives. Now, more of the drives

won't mount. A drive that (the UI tool) says is at "dev/sda" when I

try to mount it, it says that there is "already a disk mounted at

media/sdc". If it is at dev/sda, shouldn't it mount at media/sda?

Any suggestions how I work my way out of this mess?

Ken

Further:

** this is fstab:

# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0

/dev/sda1 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1

# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation

UUID=709095b9-9736-42d6-9b7a-9ab9f7b81028 none swap sw

0 0

/dev/sdb1 /media/sda1 ntfs nls=iso8859-1,users,uid=root 0 0

/dev/sdc1 /media/sdc1 ext4 users 0 0

/dev/sdd1 /media/sdd1 ext4 users 0 0

/dev/sdj1 /media/sdj1 ntfs nls=iso8859-1,users,uid=root 0 0

/dev/sdk1 /media/sdk1 ext4 group=root,users 0 0

/dev/sde1 /media/sde1 ntfs defaults 0 0

/dev/sdi1 /media/sdi1 ext4 group=root,users 0 0

** here is: ls -al /media

total 44

drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 2011-09-12 14:35 .

drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 2011-09-06 22:29 ..

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-09-11 21:10 sda1

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-09-10 17:07 sdb1

drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 2011-09-06 22:29 sdc1

drwx------ 4 ken ken 4096 2011-09-08 16:56 sdd1

drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8192 2011-09-09 14:52 sde1

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-09-12 11:06 sdi1

drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4096 2011-09-12 14:22 sdj1

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2011-09-10 17:08 sdk1

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