Re: IBM R40e: external USB floppy does not work

[Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>]

On 14 Apr 2004, gingupin@yahoo.de wrote:
Hello Jörg,

Thanks for your help

>
> #fdisk -l /dev/sda

This gives me a truely odd result
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fdisk -l /dev/sda 

Disk /dev/sda: 1 MB, 1474560 bytes
1 heads, 3 sectors/track, 960 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 3 * 512 = 1536 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   ?   639983657  1263044256   934590898+  61  SpeedStor
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(364, 109, 48) logical=(639983656, 0, 2)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(288, 99, 37) logical=(1263044255, 0, 1)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2   ?   639749586  1195614002   833796624   75  PC/IX
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(99, 101, 32) logical=(639749585, 0, 3)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(369, 97, 44) logical=(1195614001, 0, 2)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3   ?   179658763   645779734   699181456    0  Empty
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(10, 97, 13) logical=(179658762, 0, 3)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(288, 73, 15) logical=(645779733, 0, 1)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda4   ?     1820786     1820786           0   53  OnTrack DM6 Aux3
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(335, 83, 4) logical=(1820785, 0, 1)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(32, 32, 32) logical=(1820784, 0, 3)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Partition table entries are not in disk order
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>
> which should list your partition table of your TEAC RemovableDisk
> and after this has run out successfully you should try something
> like
> #mdkir /mnt/usbdisk1 #mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdisk1

Problem 

/dev/sda1: Input/output error
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

So if I try to do this I get  

mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdisk1 
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
       or too many mounted file systems


Etc.

What is wrong?

Uwe