Re: external USB acomdata drive
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 04:38:55PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
>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)?
I did. The message that dmesg produces is that there is no filesystem
(at work ATM, so I don't have my laptop, and don't remember the message
verbatim). Since I am using UDEV, I created /dev/sda1 with mknod, and
that did not work. I suspect this is because ide-scsi used to handle
scsi emulation, and that is not really what I am looking to achive.
I was thinking about trying to reformat the drive using parted or
windows (gasp), but winxp does not format fat32, and parted was giving
me a dire warning, so I held off there. I might go ahead and risk it if
I run out of options.
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