Hi all,

im trying to mount a SATA drive. I have a drive already connected to the system as /dev/sda1. The second drive that i have connected now should be /dev/sdb if im not wrong. I havent formatted this drive so it shows up on the desktop as mass storage. So i wanted to format this drive to EXT2.I tried the "sudo fdisk dev/sdb". It says unable to open dev/sdb. I tried with GPARTED and formatting the sdb and it works. Why...