* Stephen Gran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Thus spake Sean Quinlan: > > * Phil Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-08-18 01:00): > > > On Sat, Aug 18, 2001 at 12:12:03AM +0100, Sean Quinlan wrote: > > > > * Phil Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-08-17 23:50): > > > > mount -t vfat -o blocksize=1024 /dev/hdd4 /mnt/point > > > > > > I tried this just now, still no joy. I am seeing something with hdd4 that > > > I don't see with any other device name, however, regardless of mount > > > options: > > > > > > [~]# mount .... /dev/hdd4 /mnt/point > > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd4, > > > or too many mounted file systems > > > -> (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use > > > -> ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?) > > > [~]# > > > > > > There's nothing special about this IDE controller, it's just an onboard > > > controller from a plain Dell mobo. I tried sr0 and sda, they failed > > > (not surprisingly). > > Don't know if this is much help, as mine is a USB connection, but I got it to > work by enabling mass storage on USB, and also by enabling SCSI emulation for > the device - you may need to do the same - this may be the origin of the > bizarre > message asking you to use sr0 or sda as your mount point (in fact, sda is the > mount point I use). Again, I'm not sure how much will translate from USB to > IDE, > but it seems as though SCSI emulation may do it.
It seems to me that you need to have IDE-floppy support for this to work. From my kernel .config file: CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=m Sorry, I missed the start of this thread; Shaw's mail server was fsck'd yesterday. Do you have this? Cheers, Mike Pfleger There's seventy brilliant people on earth. Where are they hiding? "Yashar" -Cabaret Voltaire (off of "2x45")