On Sunday 27 August 2006 21:12, Peter N. Spotts wrote:
Folks,
I've just switched from Ubuntu to Suse 10.1. An outboard USB hard drive (Maxtor 300 GB) no longer seems to respond to mount/umount commands (as root), although it did under Ubuntu. I'm trying to find a way to recover it without losing the data on board (it's my backup).
More specifically, when I run fdisk -l, I get:
Disk /dev/sda: 300.0 GB, 300090728448 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36483 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 36483 293049666 83 Linux
dmesg give me:
Vendor: Maxtor Model: OneTouch II Rev: 023g Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 04 SCSI device sda: 586114704 512-byte hdwr sectors (300091 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 24 00 00 00 sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 586114704 512-byte hdwr sectors (300091 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 24 00 00 00 sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda: sda1 sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete
*But* >mount /dev/sda1 gives me:
This uses information from /etc/fstab my guess is that in fstab you have an entry for sda1 that says "vfat" or "msdos" or something. My guess is also that the file system on this disk isn't a microsoft file system. Try mount /dev/sda1 /mnt By passing both device and mount point, you are forcing mount to ignore fstab, and actually try to detect which file system is in use. If you know which file system it is, you can also give it as -t <file system> to mount