Problem with usb drive in mandrake

kintaroe · 09-12-2004, 12:56 AM

Hi, i'm having some problems with my usb hdd in mandrake. I running fdisk -l after hooking it up to my pc and my console sorta hangs. Same thing happens if i try to mount the drive. This problem is driving me nuts at the moment

How should i go about solving it?

od51 · 09-13-2004, 08:14 AM

(Are you referring to drive /dev/sda (or similar) or /dev/sda1?)
Plug the drive in, bring up a root console and dump the first sector of the drive to see if it is a valid boot record (ending in hex 55 AA).
dd if=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1 | hexdump -C
Does it look like a file system label (contains text saying "FAT" near the front, or something else recognisable) or does it look like a valid MBR? (Perhaps post the dump of the first sector here for someone to interprete).