[SOLVED] Mounting ext4 drive

[super.rad]

I've been trying fedora 10 for a few weeks and decided to also try reformatting one of my drives as ext4. I've have had no problems with it at all and the drive was actually quieter than usual (is an old and pretty noisy drive) and fsck check's have been much quicker than on ext3.
To mount the drive in fedora I just typed

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mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb1 /media/media

and in fstab I just changed filesystem from ext3 to ext4 and it mounted on boot with no problems.
After having a few problems on fedora (and not liking rpm/yum as much as deb/apt) I reinstalled Debian from the weekly testing CD. As lenny is still frozen I decided to upgrade to sid until squeeze is released when I will change my sources back to testing.
The problem is I tried to mount the drive using the same commands I used on fedora and got the error

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mount: unknown filesystem type 'ext4'

So after a bit of searching I found the following from here

In Debian Lenny (Testing), the following current packages provide ext4 support:

* ext4dev module in the linux-image package (2.6.26-10)
* e2fsprogs (1.41.3-1)

It should be noted that the stock 2.6.26 ext4 has problems with delayed allocation and with filesystems with non-extent based files. So until Debian starts shipping a 2.6.27 based kernel or a 2.6.26 kernel with at least the 2.6.26-ext4-7 patchset, you should mount ext4dev filesystems using -o nodelalloc and only use freshly created filesystems using "mke2fs -t ext4dev". (Without these fixes, if you try to use an ext3 filesystem which was converted using tune2fs -E test_fs -o extents /dev/DEV, you will probably hit a kernel BUG the moment you try to delete or truncate an old non-extent based file.)

So I tried mounting the drive using "ext4dev" instead of just "ext4" but I'm getting this error:

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mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd1,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

output from dmesg | tail

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[ 2418.752407] EXT4-fs: hdd1: not marked OK to use with test code.

Can anyone help me to mount this drive?
Thanks

EDIT: Forgot to say, I know I could just build a newer kernel but I want to check if theres an easier way first as I have never built/compiled a kernel before

[bugsbunny]

A bit of googling and I suggest that you look at the following:
man tune2fs
-E option
the test_fs and ^test_fs flags

[CreamFilledGiraffe]

Try

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insmod ext4dev

first.

Might help.

[super.rad]

A bit of googling and I suggest that you look at the following:
man tune2fs
-E option
the test_fs and ^test_fs flags

Thanks, tried that and worked perfectly, incase anyone else has this problem I typed

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tune2fs -E test_fs /dev/hdd1

then

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mount -t ext4dev /dev/hdd1 /media/media