What's the "dmesg" output after plugging the drive in? Can you
see it with "fdisk" or "cfdisk"?


--- Jim Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Howdy folks,
> 
> I'm working with a redhat 9 (shrike) system.  It acts as a
> file  
> server, and I use some cron scripts to mount a few different
> usb hard  
> drives to dump backups onto.  This allows the hard drives to
> be  
> easily rotated and used as offsite back ups.  For wide spread
> OS  
> readability I use a vfat format type.
> 
> Recently we swapped external enclosures on one of the hard
> drives,  
> and now the redhat 9 system will not read it or mount it. 
> However,  
> any other system will mount the drive fine.  (tried with OS X
> and  
> Fedora).  I would like to avoid updating the file servers OS
> seeing  
> as I don't really have a lot of extra time to devote to it.
> 
> Does anyone have any advice or know why the drive might not be
>  
> mountable?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim
>

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