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IDE HD Won't Mount

I have a box with Slackware 9.1 and I just installed a 20gb hard drive on secondary slave. It shows up in cfdisk and fdisk but it won't let me mount it. Here is the dmesg:

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VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 16:41.

FAT: bogus logical sector size 63222

VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 16:41.

FAT: bogus logical sector size 63222

VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 16:41.

FAT: bogus logical sector size 63222

VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 16:41.

 hdd: hdd1

FAT: bogus logical sector size 0

VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 16:41.

The filesystem SHOULD be there. Here is the output from "fdisk /dev/hdd -l":

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Disk /dev/hdd: 20.5 GB, 20576747520 bytes

16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 39870 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes



  Device Boot    Start      End    Blocks  Id  System

/dev/hdd1            1    39870  20094448+  b  Win95 FAT32

I'd like to use FAT32 since I may be using this hard drive on a windows machine in the future.

Don't know what is going on. I'd really appreciate some help!

Thanks,

Rey

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The filesystem SHOULD be there. Here is the output from "fdisk /dev/hdd -l":

This is not true. The fdisk command tells you that you have a partition and that the partition type is FAT 32.
The partition may or may not have a filesystem yet.
If the hd is never used, you need to create a filesystem (something like what the DOS format command does),
with mkfs command

I tried doing mkfs earlier but it formatted it as a linux filesystem. I tried it with vfat but it didn't work. What would be the command to format it for FAT32?

You have to do 'mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/hdd1'. Some systems its mkdosfs instead of mkfs.vfat.

I tried mkfs and it didn't work, so then I tried mkdosfs and it worked great! Thanks!