External USB hard disk aint working/mounting

rushadrenaline · 09-27-2008, 06:19 AM

Hi all,
i have this western digital 80 gb external usb hard disk. But it isnt mounting in mandriva 2008. when i connect it the konqueror windows pops up with following error message ::

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usb hard disk wrong fs type,bad option,bad superblock,missing codepage error. Check dmesg|tail

dmesg | tail gives :

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sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off 
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through 
 sdb: sdb1 
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk 
sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 
usb-storage: device scan complete 
FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive! 
FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors 
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb1.

If i try to mount it manually it throws up this error :

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sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb /mnt/disk/ -o rw 
NTFS signature is missing. 
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb': Invalid argument 
The device '/dev/sdb' doesn't have a valid NTFS. 
Maybe you selected the wrong device? Or the whole disk instead of a 
partition (e.g. /dev/hda, not /dev/hda1)? Or the other way around?

ddaemonunics · 09-27-2008, 07:07 AM

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb /mnt/disk/ -o rw

it should be sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1
you must specify the partition number sdb1 or sdb2 or etc..
try fdisk /dev/sdb
view existing partition
recreate partition table if no data on hdd
create a filesystem on partitions created

rushadrenaline · 09-27-2008, 07:25 AM

Ohh im really sorry for a stupid mistake. But i forgot to mention that mounting hasnt been an issue.
Like after mounting it when i tried to play some content via command line :::

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kaffeine: KXineWidget: Playing: /mnt/disk/Smallville3/smallville.s03e01.ws.dvdrip.xvid-river.avi 
kaffeine: KXineWidget: xine event: channels changed 
system call fstat: Input/output error 
system call fstat: Input/output error 
system call fstat: Input/output error 
system call fstat: Input/output error 
system call fstat: Input/output error

also ls couldnt find any files

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[rusha@localhost Smallville - 3]$ ls 
ls: cannot open directory .: Input/output error

also mount gave folowing output

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[rusha@localhost Smallville - 3] mount 
/dev/sdb1 on /mnt/disk type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096)

Though its giving input/output error on ls but df gives

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[rusha@localhost disk]$ df -h | grep -i sdb1 
/dev/sdb1              75G  6.0G   69G   8% /mnt/disk