I've got a dual boot system with RedHat 9 and Windows XP. I've just added
a firewire card and can now see an
80GB Maxto Firewire drive that was previously connected to another Windows
machine.

dmesg sees shows the following:

Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sdc: 160086528 512-byte hdwr sectors (81964 MB)
sdc: sdc1


However, when I try and do

mount -t vfat /dev/sdc /mnt/sdc

I get the response:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc,
or too many mounted file systems

If I do:

/sbin/fdisk /dev/sdc

I get the response:

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 9964.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)


The drive has just one partition I think and is currently over 70GB full.

Any ideas what I need to do? Many thanks -

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On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 10:29:47 +0000, Ewan wrote:

> I've got a dual boot system with RedHat 9 and Windows XP. I've just
> added a firewire card and can now see an
> 80GB Maxto Firewire drive that was previously connected to another
> Windows machine.
>
> dmesg sees shows the following:
>
> Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 SCSI device sdc:
> 160086528 512-byte hdwr sectors (81964 MB)
>   sdc: sdc1
>
>
> However, when I try and do
>
>   mount -t vfat /dev/sdc /mnt/sdc

You are attempting to mount the device (sdc) here and not the partition
which is sdc1 in this case, use; mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sdc

Assuming that the mountpoint (/mnt/sdc) exists, if not create it first as
root from the console or xterm session with; mkdir /mnt/sdc

See 'man mount' for the details.


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Lenard - I've only just seen your reply due to other problems. Many
thanks. Works perfectly.

E

Lenard wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 10:29:47 +0000, Ewan wrote:
> 
sdc:[vbcol=seagreen] 
>
> You are attempting to mount the device (sdc) here and not the
partition
> which is sdc1 in this case, use; mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sdc
>
> Assuming that the mountpoint (/mnt/sdc) exists, if not create it
first as
> root from the console or xterm session with; mkdir /mnt/sdc
>
> See 'man mount' for the details.
>
>
> --
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
>  safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."     -- B. Franklin, 1759

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