Trouble Mounting HD attached to ATA card
I installed RH9 and am having trouble mounting a WD 160gig dirve attached to a promise 100TX2 2.0.210.2 ATA controller card. The partition I am trying to mount is a FAT32.
I have formatted the drive twice and am still not able to mount the drive. Input: mount -t vfat /dev/hde1 /mnt/backup ERROR: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hde1, or too many mounted file systems Here is the output of fdisk -l: Disk /dev/hde: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hde1 * 1 19457 156288321 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) Disk /dev/hdc: 40.0 GB, 40027029504 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4866 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 * 1 4866 39086113+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) Disk /dev/hda: 8455 MB, 8455200768 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1027 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/hda2 14 979 7759395 83 Linux /dev/hda3 980 1027 385560 82 Linux swap I really have no idea why I can't mount the drive, I do however find the + in the blocks column suspicious (for /dev/hdc). Any ideas? Thanks in Advance. |
try -t msdos
also make sure eather the vfat module is loaded into the kernel or compiled in. (lsmod) |
I get the same error message when I try -t msdos.
I know that the FAT32 support is there b/c /dev/hdc is mountable and accessile and is FAT32. Any other ideas? |
version of fat32, windowsxp sometimes does a few minor things to its fs's that make them unusable, use a windows 98 floppy or linux to format it fat32, then do the windows part.
(mkfs.vfat /dev/hdx) |
I tried mkfs.vfat /dev/hde and I get the following error:
mkfs.vfat 2.8 (28 Feb 2001) mkfs.vfat: Attempting to create a too large file system Anyone know what the limit on FAT32 partitions is or how to get around this? What is ext3's limit? |
not sure.
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