extern hard drives

[Doug Pollard]

H.S. wrote:
> Doug Pollard wrote:
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>> Now!  here is the output this time. I don't know why it is different and 
>> shows all drives? I did go back to Xp and tried a couple things 
>> suggested by Jerry. I was able to get xp to show the Empty sdd drive so 
>> thats an improvement but the 160GB sdc drive with media on it could not 
>> be made to show in XP, MY computer  even though I changed the drive 
>> letter.   I then restarted Ubuntu   maybe that made a difference??
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>> /dev/sdd1 on /media/disk type vfat 
>> (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,utf8,umask=077,flush)
>> /dev/sdc1 on /media/disk-1 type vfat 
>> (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,utf8,umask=077,flush)
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> Okay, these are the two USB drives from your description. sdd works
> okay, as you wrote above. sdc drive is vfat (same as sdd), so the format
> of the drive shouldn't be a problem. What is the output of this command
> in Ubuntu?
> $> sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc
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> My suspicion is that there is some problem with the filesystem on sdc.
> Are you able to write and read files to this drive in Ubuntu?
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Here is the output. I see it has an asterix under boot??  That seems wrong.
                                                                         
         Doug

doug at doug-Linux:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc
[sudo] password for doug:

Disk /dev/sdc: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0009e195

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1   *           1       19457   156288321    b  W95 FAT32
doug at doug-Linux:~$