Adding new SCSI drives & mounting issues

[Darque Pervert]

Help!!!!

Here's the basics of my system:

(1) IDE 4.5GB HDD (boot drive)
(1) IDE CDROM
(1) Adaptec 2940W SCSI Controller
(1) 4.5GB SCSI HDD (sda)
(1) 9.1GB SCSI HDD (sdb)
(1) 4.3GB SCSI HDD (scc)

I'm running Mandrake 7.2...

What happends is when I try to partition sdb & sdc, it looks OK, but mounting filesystem gives me a message saying: mkfs.ext2: Device not configured while trying to determine filesystem size
When I go back and look at the partition table of the 9GB drive, it keeps saying that the partition doesn't end at a cylinder boundary or somesuch (sorry for not having that message verbatim).

In addition, my CDROM and my FDD don't seem to be mounted. I can't read either from Linux. Both work fine when I boot from a DOS boot disk, however.
:confused:

I don't have access to the Linux box presently (I'm at work) to offer up any of my config files to troubleshoot.
Any advice you have to help me with these issues would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[BobjoB]

mkfs* is NOT the partitioning utility, it is the formatting utility.
use cfdisk or fdisk to partition.
eg: cfdisk /dev/sdb
setup the linux partitions then format. then you can mount. as for your cdrom drive its probably misconfigured in your fstab file