On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:56:45AM +0000, Clive Woodfine wrote: > 2009/2/26 Hugo Mills <h...@carfax.org.uk>: > Thanks James and Hugo for prompt replies. > > > What command did you use to try mounting the filesystem? What > > errors did you get? Was there anything reported in /var/log/syslog (or > > /var/log/messages) as a result of you trying to mount the filesystem? > > > > Hugo. > > > I have reconnected the caddy so is now showing as sdd. It is formatted as > VFAT. > > r...@vaio:~# mount -t vfat /dev/sdd /mnt/Caddy/ > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdd, > missing codepage or helper program, or other error > In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try > dmesg | tail or so > > r...@vaio:~# tail /var/log/syslog [...] > Feb 26 11:46:34 vaio kernel: [ 4169.783852] FAT: invalid media value (0xb9) > Feb 26 11:46:34 vaio kernel: [ 4169.783863] VFS: Can't find a valid > FAT filesystem on dev sdd.
That would seem to suggest some kind of data corruption. What does this command tell you? # cat /dev/sdd1 | file - Hugo. -- === Hugo Mills: h...@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === PGP key: 515C238D from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk --- Gomez, darling, don't torture yourself. That's my job. ---
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