Re: firewire (IEEE1394) harddrive: how to use?

[Nicolas MASSE <nicolas27.masse@laposte.net>]

Le samedi 28 Août 2004 08:51, Ryo Furue a écrit :
> Hi all,

Hi

> This may sound a stupid question, but how are we *supposed*
> to use a firewire harddrive?  I'm now using one without problems,
> so this isn't a usual "howto" question.
>
> The other day I asked our tech person for an internal ATA harddrive.
> He didn't have one at the moment, so he gave me a firewire harddrive
> instead, saying that it should work with my Debian box because he
> used it with his RedHat box.  He added that I could erase any of
> his files in the drive.
>
> I managed to add necessary modules to my kernel by consulting this
> website
>    http://www.linux1394.org/start_req.php
> and I saw that the drive was recognized by the drivers, judging from
> the messages in /var/log/messages.  But,
>
>    # mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt

# mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt

It's because windows doesn't create a partition table, it uses all the disk 
for the file system. 

Nicolas.