mount failed
hello, i am trying to mount an external USB hard disk whose partitions
i have previously deleted entirely;
i am trying to repartition it with only one large ext3 partition but
when i plug the disk in i receive the following:
# dmesg | tail -24
[119345.376254] usb 4-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 15
[119345.509857] usb 4-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[119345.510949] scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[119345.511407] usb 4-3: New USB device found, idVendor=14cd, idProduct=6600
[119345.511417] usb 4-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=3,
SerialNumber=2
[119345.511426] usb 4-3: Product: USB 2.0 IDE DEVICE
[119345.511432] usb 4-3: Manufacturer: Super Top
[119345.511439] usb 4-3: SerialNumber: ??????????
[119345.511455] usb-storage: device found at 15
[119345.511461] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[119350.508579] usb-storage: device scan complete
[119350.509767] scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access Maxtor 6 L160P0
PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[119350.553161] sd 5:0:0:0: [sda] 320173056 512-byte hardware sectors
(163929 MB)
[119350.584442] sd 5:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[119350.584456] sd 5:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[119350.584464] sd 5:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[119350.591895] sd 5:0:0:0: [sda] 320173056 512-byte hardware sectors
(163929 MB)
[119350.597776] sd 5:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[119350.597790] sd 5:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[119350.597797] sd 5:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[119350.597806] sda: sda1
[119350.623374] sd 5:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[119380.868705] FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
[119380.868721] VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda1.
i'd like to know how to create the partition again
thank you very much
--
roberto
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