Re: LS120 Drive

[nospam [at] janes.demon.co.uk (Matthew Collins)]

On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 16:49:49 +0100, Richard
<r.ibbotson [at] zetnet.co.uk> wrote:

>sheflug - http://home.freeuk.net/shef.lug
>
>Paul
>
>> only use vfat if that's how the LS120 disks are formatted.....you
>> could try mount -t auto /dev/hdd /mnt for luck.
>
> Comes back as input/output error and then
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
>
> When I use vfat I get..........
>
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
> dev/hdd4, or too many mounted file systems
>
> I think I should get hold of a blank 120Mb floppy and try that.
>
>Thanks
>

Have you tried running fdisk on it?

fdisk /dev/hdd

That should show you what partitions are present. If there are none
there, create one, and mke2fs on it.

It depends if you need to share the disks with windows users, or if
they are just for your own consumption.
--
Matthew Collins

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