Mounting eSATA Drive on boot

[Mandarine]

Hello,

since yesterday I'm a proud owner of a black eSATA SheevaPlug with Debian 6.0 Squeeze on a 8GB SD Card. I'm able to mount the eSATA Drive when the Plug is up and running.

Now I've tried adding the following line to /etc/fstab:

/dev/sda1 /srv ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1

Now the Plug won't boot any longer. It stops with:

"Checking root file system ... fsck from util-linux-ng 2.16.2
Usage: fsck.ext4 ......

fsck died with exit status 16"

What went wrong? Is there any way to mount the eSATA Drive during boot time?

uboot Version is 3.4.16, Kernel is 2.6.32-7

Sascha

[Mandarine]

can't anybody help?

[NewIT_Marcus]

Does the drive mount manually?

What format is the drive? Can your system cope with that filesystem/format?

Are there spin-up issues?

[Mandarine]

As I wrote in my original post:

I can mount the drive manually, the drive is "ext4" and there are no spin-up issues. The drive is recognized at boot time (visible with the seriell console).

[ubogdan]

I saw your issue on a regular PC. Somehow your partition has an issue (uncleanly unmounted). Try to format the disk again ussing mkfs.ext4 from your Sheeva Plug...

Good Luck