From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264398AbTKNUGM (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:06:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264442AbTKNUGM (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:06:12 -0500 Received: from out006pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.106]:20418 "EHLO out006.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264398AbTKNUGJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:06:09 -0500 From: Gene Heskett Reply-To: gene.heskett@verizon.net To: Andries Brouwer , Patrick Beard Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test9 VFAT problem Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:06:07 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <09A92EA4A9D2D51182170004AC96FE7A1216BB@mercury.scotcomms> <20031114190337.GA18107@win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20031114190337.GA18107@win.tue.nl> Organization: None that appears to be detectable by casual observers MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311141506.07784.gene.heskett@verizon.net> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out006.verizon.net from [151.205.12.17] at Fri, 14 Nov 2003 14:06:07 -0600 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 14 November 2003 14:03, Andries Brouwer wrote: >On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 11:51:57AM -0000, Patrick Beard wrote: >> > > My fstab entry is; >> > > /dev/sda /mnt/smedia vfat rw,user,noauto 0,0 >> > >> > I would guess that you have to mount /dev/sda1 or perhaps >> > /dev/sda4. Isn't that what you do under 2.4? >> >> Yes, with 2.4 I used sda1. When I first compiled 2.6 I used sda1 >> but I got the 'wrong fs..' error. This was a clean install of >> debian so I didn't have my original fstab. I checked the web and >> noticed people using sda. so I tried that - same error. In trying >> to get this to work I've used sda and sda1 at different times both >> gave the same errors. > >Good. > >Maybe you know already, but just to be sure: >You must use sda if the thing has no partition table. >You must use sda1 if the thing has a partition table. > >So, if sda1 works under 2.4, then sda is certainly wrong under 2.6 - >your device would just look like garbage and the error messages are >meaningless. >Only try sda1, and report whatever goes wrong in that case. > >Andries I just played 210 monkeys, and /dev/sda doesn't work for mount, but sda1 does. Both work for a read by dd FWTW. Links suitably restored. -- Cheers, Gene AMD K6-III@500mhz 320M Athlon1600XP@1400mhz 512M 99.27% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2003 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.