Re: fs mounting problem

[eric cote <eric.s.cote@sympatico.ca>]

On 2002.03.06 11:01 Ron Farrer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just moved a disk to my PM9600 from an Alpha. It's a 68-pin
> UltraWide
> SCSI, 23.2GB drive. It has a 68-pin -> 50-pin converter on it. My
> problem is Linux (2.4.17) doesn't seem to want to mount it, when
> trying
> to do so it says "mount: /dev/sdc6: unknown device". mac-fdisk also
> says
> there is no readable partitions on the disk, however cfdisk correctly
> sees them all:
> sdc1	PRIMARY		FAT16		11.52
> sdc5	LOGICAL		LINUX swap	2119.18
> sdc6	LOGICAL		LINUX ext2	21074.29
>
> sda contains MacOS 9. MacOS is able to see the FAT16 partition just
> fine. I took the drive out and put it back in the Alpha and it works
> fine. So my question is, why can't I get Linux to mount any partitions
> from this disk?

this may have been answered already, and probably a better one too, but 
my 2 cents is that maybe it's because of the FAT16 partition being the 
first one, instead of the linux root.
>

eric
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learning as i go. as always.


> Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!
>
> TIA,
> Ron


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