[solved- paritally] Re: external USB acomdata drive

2005-07-11 Thread Pete Hicks
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:52:59AM -0700, Pete Hicks wrote: >I am trying to mount an external 80GB acomdata usb drive on a Sarge >laptop with a 2.6.12 kernel. I get the following output from hotplug in >syslog: > >Jul 7 08:16:00 moonglum kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: over-current change on port 1 >Jul 7 0

Re: external USB acomdata drive

2005-07-08 Thread Wackojacko
but winxp does not format fat32 Try Settings->control panel->administrative tools->computer management->disk management then right click on the drive and select format and FAT32 in the drop down list. Of course you'll have to have admin privilidges on your PC for this. HTH Wackojacko -

Re: external USB acomdata drive

2005-07-07 Thread Ephemeral Root
Quoting Pete Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 04:38:55PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:52:59AM -0700, Pete Hicks wrote: > > > > > However, when I try and mount the drive, I can an error > > > saying wrong fstype: > > > > > > % sudo mount -t vfat /dev/

Re: external USB acomdata drive

2005-07-07 Thread Pete Hicks
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 04:38:55PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: >On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:52:59AM -0700, Pete Hicks wrote: > >> However, when I try and mount the drive, I can an error saying wrong >> fstype: >> >> % sudo mount -t vfat /dev/uba /mnt/extdrive >> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad su

Re: external USB acomdata drive

2005-07-07 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:52:59AM -0700, Pete Hicks wrote: > However, when I try and mount the drive, I can an error saying wrong > fstype: > > % sudo mount -t vfat /dev/uba /mnt/extdrive > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/uba, >missing codepage or other error >