Re: [Hampshire] Mounting external drive.

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Author: Hugo Mills
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Mounting external drive.

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On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:56:45AM +0000, Clive Woodfine wrote:
> 2009/2/26 Hugo Mills <hugo@???>:
> 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.
>
> root@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

>
> root@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.

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