Re: external USB acomdata drive
Quoting Pete Hicks <petong@jah.net>:
> 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.
Just a few thoughts: Did you try "mount /dev/uba1"? What
does "ls /dev/uba*" say?
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