Re: [Hampshire] Mounting external drive.

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Author: Michael-John Turner
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Mounting external drive.
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:56:45AM +0000, Clive Woodfine wrote:
> 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

Can you try "mount -t vfat /dev/sdd1 /mnt/Caddy/"? - the above is trying to
mount the disk and not the partition containing a filesystem. 

-mj
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