[Cialug] Western Digital My Book

[dave at 58ghz.net]

fdisk shows the partition type as  fat32 LBA.

Whenever I'd specify any of the dos type filesystems
on my rhel 3 box, i'd get an error. Just on a whim, I
plugged it into my rhel5 box and did the following
command:

mount  -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media    

It mounted fine, and I can read/write files and data.
 I'm guessing that maybe the newer kernel on RHEL 5
helps.

I'm not gonna fight it on RHEL 3  box as it will be
taken out of service in the next year. I'll just work
from it from the  RHEL  5 box.

Thanks for the tips.

:) Dave

------- Original Message -------
>From    : Daniel
Wittenberg[mailto:daniel-wittenberg at starken.com]
Sent    : 6/20/2007 7:58:31 AM
To      : cialug at cialug.org
Cc      : 
Subject : RE: Re: [Cialug] Western Digital My Book

 What do you get from:

fdisk -l /dev/sdb 

Dan

On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 07:50 -0500, dave at 58ghz.net wrote:
> Anyone get the following error when trying to mount a
> western digital usb my book under redhat enterprise 3?
> 
> mount: /dev/sdb1 is not a valid block device
> 
> Here's the mount command I used:
> 
> mount -t auto /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb_1
> 
> Here's what dmesg said about the device:
> 
> Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
> scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
>   Vendor: WD        Model: 2500JB External   Rev: 0108
>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI
> SCSI revision: 02
> Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> SCSI device sdb: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors
> (250059 MB)
>  sdb: sdb1
> WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
> USB Mass Storage device found at 2
> USB Mass Storage support registered.
> 
> 
> I'm guessing this error means that it doesn't
> recognize the file system, and that I need to
> reformat the drive?
> I'm hoping reformating is not what I need to do...
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> :) Dave
> 
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