Re: LS120 Drive

[Stephen J. Turnbull <nospam [at] sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>]

>>>>> Richard == Richard <r.ibbotson [at] zetnet.co.uk> writes:

>> mount -t vfat /dev/hdd4 /mnt

Richard> Tried it and it wouldn't have it. I'll try again
Richard> today.

Ahem - is the media known to (a) be low-level formatted (high
probability) and (b) have a file system on it? If it's new, the
latter is possibly DOS not Windows, and you should invoke it with

mount -t msdos /dev/hdd4 /mnt

If you _know_ there's nothing on it, you could try fdisk'ing it
(that's a good idea anyway, if you're nervous flick the RO tab) to see
if the partition table makes any sense (the 4 in hdd4 looks like the
4 I saw in a DOS 650MB MO recently; but mounting /dev/sdc worked
(IIRC) as well as did /dev/sdc4 (wasn't empty though, so I didn't try
writing to the medium). Don't trust anything to be set up sensibly on
a DOS medium. I don't know whether there should be a partition table
there. You could try mounting /dev/hdd (with assorted filesystems),
too.

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