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trying to mount /dev/hdb as reiserfs


You can't mount /dev/hdb as reiserfs because /dev/hdb is the entire disk. You need to mount one of the partitions (/dev/hdb1, /dev/hdb2, etc.) as reiserfs. I don't know which one, though. Do an fdisk -l /dev/hdb (that's a lower-case L) to find out what partitions are on the disk.
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