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Oyst3h
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 Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 8:25 pm Post subject: Problem accessing drive (vfat) [SOLVED] |
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I had to re-install Gentoo a little while ago, and ever since I have been unable to mount my second IDE drive. It's a 160Gb drive that moved from a Windows install and contains one FAT32 partition. The disk used to mount in Gentoo just fine before I re-installed.
dmesg has the following relevant info...
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hdb: max request size: 1024KiB
hdb: 320173056 sectors (163928 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=16643/255/63, UDMA(100)
hdb: cache flushes supported
hdb: hdb1
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FAT: invalid media value (0xb9)
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hdb.
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fdisk, however, shows this:
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gentoo linux # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hdb: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 19929 160079661 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
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trying to to mount the drive manually gives the following...
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gentoo linux # mount /dev/hdb
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb,
or too many mounted file systems
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and fsck gives the following
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gentoo linux # fsck /dev/hdb
fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
dosfsck 2.10, 22 Sep 2003, FAT32, LFN
Currently, only 1 or 2 FATs are supported, not 191.
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The BIOS reports 16643 cylinders.
Why does fdisk report 19929 cylinders? Is this likely to be the problem? And how can I fix it?
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TheRAt
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| Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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Did you compile fat32 support in your kernel, or as a module and loaded the module ??
| Code: | File systems --->
DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems --->
<M> MSDOS fs support
<M> VFAT (Windows-95) fs support |
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codergeek42
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You're trying to mount the whole disc. (/dev/hdb). Try mounting only the filesystem partition: | Code: | | # mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 |
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grunthus
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| Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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If this drive has just been used in a windows box, presumably it was the primary drive - if you are now looking for it in /dev/hdb - have you altered the jumper switches?
This is just a guess, but on your old system were you mounting it as VFAT? I thought the latest versions of windows used NTFS? I've never mounted via NTFS, always used smbfs for accessing windows shares at work. |
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Oyst3h
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| Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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Wow! Quick reply, thanks.
Yep, I have vfat and fat compiled as modules and loaded
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gentoo linux # grep FAT .config
# DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems
CONFIG_FAT_FS=m
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m
CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE=437
CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET="iso8859-1"
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gentoo linux # lsmod
Module Size Used by
vfat 11200 0
fat 35676 1 vfat
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also have
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gentoo linux # grep CODEPAGE .config
CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_CODEPAGE=437
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y
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Oh! and I should have said that a friend's Windows box will recognise the disk fine, including the filesystem and all files in it.
I'm stumped!  |
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Oyst3h
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| Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2005 8:40 pm Post subject: |
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| codergeek42 wrote: | You're trying to mount the whole disc. (/dev/hdb). Try mounting only the filesystem partition: | Code: | | # mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 |
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<doh!> What a fool I am. Thanks very much.
Spent ages looking for complicated things to fix, and its a simple mistype.
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codergeek42
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Heh. I do that too sometimes.  Glad you got working. 
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