Re: firewire (IEEE1394) harddrive: how to use?
Nicolas MASSE <nicolas27.masse@laposte.net> wrote in message news:<2ygr4-7lX-9@gated-at.bofh.it>...
> Le samedi 28 Ao t 2004 08:51, Ryo Furue a crit :
[...]
> > 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.
Argh. That sounds plausible. The page I consulted
(http://www.linux1394.org/faq.php#sbp2) didn't tell me that!
I'll try it next time I use a *fresh* firewire drive. (As I said,
I've already *corrupted* my drive by reformatting it. :-)
Thanks, Nicolas, for the info.
Ryo
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