Problem with External Firewire HDD
 

hello ,

i have bought recently an Vipower enclosour and an toshiba 2.5'' hard disk.
This combination seems to work fine under Windows as a fat32 partition.
When i try to mount it under my Suse 9.3 64 bit i get the following error :

"mount /dev/sdb1
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
"

at the fstab i have : "/dev/sdb1 /home/nic/vipower vfat noauto,users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0"

when i type: dmesg | tail i get :

elab11:/home/nic # dmesg | tail
cdrom: open failed.
cdrom: open failed.
cdrom: open failed.
cdrom: open failed.
cdrom: open failed.
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
FAT: invalid media value (0x40)
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb1

Also if i use the cfdisk or fdisk to format the drive it crashes and do nothing.Even if i press ctrl-C nothing happens. I used Yast2 and PArtitioner to create a new partition i get the error:
"Operation not permitted at /dev/sdb .. "


Has anybody a clue?

Does have anybody firewire external hdd?

The device has also usb2 , but when i connect it trough it i didnt see it with the command lsscsi ....

..the device had problem.. i hope with the new one i would not have anything bad to deal with