Redhat to Suse and ext2 FS

I've been building a new suse 8.1 pro box to replace an old redhat box. Everything is working on the new box - mail, apache... - but I tried moving an 80GB Maxtor IDE drive over and was not able to mount the system. The device is recognized. The FS type is ext2, but when I tried mounting as ext2 I received a 'bad fstype' message. I have SCSI drives that take care of the important stuff and this IDE drive is used for long-term, online data storage. Does anyone know why taking an ext2 drive from redhat to suse would fail? Thanks. Jason