Can't mount an ext3 partition - why?

Hello all,

maybe it's so easy... but I stuck on it:

I have a 2.4.18-3 pre-compiled kernel coming with an RH7.3 distribution. Running a system under it I create an ext-3 partition on a secondary HDD (/dev/hdc1). All was fine, but now I have to recompile my kernel with some new modules, and new kernel can't mount this! It mounts my /dev/hda partitions (/, /boot and swap) without any question, but /dev/hdc1 makes it stuck! fsck says, it has something wrong on it... But old kernel mounts hdc1 silently, and I have no reason to run fsck (I think).

Please tell me what I miss in the kernel config? Here's related part of it:

#
# File systems
#
# CONFIG_QUOTA is not set
# CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS is not set
# CONFIG_REISERFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_ADFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_AFFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_HFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_BFS_FS is not set
CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y
CONFIG_JBD=y
# CONFIG_JBD_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y
CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS=y
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
# CONFIG_EFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_CRAMFS is not set
CONFIG_TMPFS=y
CONFIG_RAMFS=y
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
CONFIG_JOLIET=y
CONFIG_ZISOFS=y
# CONFIG_JFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_MINIX_FS is not set
# CONFIG_VXFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_NTFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_HPFS_FS is not set
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_DEVFS_FS=y
CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT=y
# CONFIG_DEVFS_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y
# CONFIG_QNX4FS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_ROMFS_FS is not set
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
# CONFIG_SYSV_FS is not set
CONFIG_UDF_FS=y
# CONFIG_UDF_RW is not set
CONFIG_UFS_FS=y
# CONFIG_UFS_FS_WRITE is not set

#
# Partition Types
#
CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED=y
# CONFIG_ACORN_PARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_OSF_PARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_AMIGA_PARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_ATARI_PARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_MAC_PARTITION is not set
CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_BSD_DISKLABEL=y
CONFIG_MINIX_SUBPARTITION=y *
CONFIG_SOLARIS_X86_PARTITION=y *
# CONFIG_UNIXWARE_DISKLABEL is not set
# CONFIG_LDM_PARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_SGI_PARTITION is not set
# CONFIG_ULTRIX_PARTITION is not set
CONFIG_SUN_PARTITION=y *
CONFIG_SMB_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS=y

* is a result of my 'experiments' with different partition types...

PC is Intel Pentium II 233, hda is 4GB Fujitsy, hdc is 80GB Maxtor (BIOS can't detect it, so in BIOS table I choose "none").

Any comments?

Best regards,
 Igor                            mailto:[email protected]