FAT32 stealth hard drive at /dev/hdb?

Vram lamsokvr at xprt.net
Fri Jan 28 16:49:30 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 10:45 +0100, Brian Durant wrote:
>  --- Vram <lamsokvr at xprt.net> skrev: 
> > On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 10:12 +0100, Brian Durant
> > wrote:
> > >  --- Vram <lamsokvr at xprt.net> skrev: 
> > > > On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 09:42 +0100, Brian Durant
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > Hi again. I have a FAT32 hard drive at
> > /dev/hdb on
> > > > my
> > > > > computer. dmesg reports:
> > > > > 
> > > > > hdb: ST380011A, ATA DISK drive
> > > > > Using anticipatory io scheduler
> > > > > ide0 at 0xf88af080-0xf88af087,0xf88af08a on
> > irq 11
> > > > > hdb: max request size: 64KiB
> > > > > hdb: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB
> > Cache,
> > > > > CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(100)
> > > > >  /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1
> > > > > 
> > > > > mount reports that the disk is already
> > mounted,
> > > > but it
> > > > > is nowhere to be found in GNOME. Is this a new
> > > > stealth
> > > > > model? What can I do?
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Can you post the output from mount???
> > > 
> > > $ mount /mnt/fat32
> > > mount: according to mtab, /dev/hdb1 is already
> > mounted
> > > on /mnt/fat32
> > > mount failed
> > > 
> > 
> > This is what I want to see...
> > 
> > 
> > vram at Aether:~ $ mount
> > /dev/hda3 on / type reiserfs (rw)
> > proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> > sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
> > devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> > tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
> > /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
> > /dev/hda9 on /home type reiserfs (rw)
> > /dev/hda7 on /tmp type ext3 (rw)
> > /dev/hda5 on /usr type reiserfs (rw)
> > /dev/hda8 on /usr/local type ext3 (rw)
> > /dev/hda6 on /var type reiserfs (rw)
> > /dev/hda10 on /work type reiserfs (rw)
> > /dev/hdb3 on /mnt/old_home type reiserfs (rw)
> > usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
> > /dev/hdb5 on /image type reiserfs (rw)
> 
> $ mount
> /dev/hde1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
> proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
> /dev/hdb1 on /mnt/fat32 type vfat (rw,umask=000)
> usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
> 
> Cheers,
> 


Brain

It is there and it is mounted like it should be.

I expect you are expecting something that is not going to happen

If you go to Computer--->> Disks-->>--->>  Filesystem

There it is..

/mnt/fat32 will not show up as a disk...

It shows up as a mount point..

Good Luck

Vram

















> Brian
> 





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