On 5/14/07, tom arnall <kloro2006@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm trying to get an external hdd working. (The maker is Magnetic Data Technologies.) When I try to mount it I get the 'tell me about the format' message. Last time I dealt with one of these I just hooked it up and it worked. Any ideas?
Are you sure there is a filesystem on the partition you're trying to mount? Have you used that particular disk before or is it new? If it is new, use fdisk to create partitions on it and then use mkfs to create a filesystem on the partitions. -- Kushal