Re: external USB acomdata drive

[Carl Fink <carlf@fink.to>]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:52:59AM -0700, Pete Hicks wrote:

> However, when I try and mount the drive, I can an error saying wrong
> fstype:
> 
> % sudo mount -t vfat /dev/uba /mnt/extdrive
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/uba,
>        missing codepage or other error
>        (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
>        ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)
>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>        dmesg | tail  or so

Did you try either of the things mount suggested (mounting /dev/sda or
looking at dmesg)?
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