On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Jose Albores wrote:
> El 24-Jun-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo:
> > According to Tom Taylor: While burning my CPU.
> >>
> >> At 11:06 AM 6/24/99 -0300, you wrote:
> >> >I've just compiled (twice...) a kernel version 2.2.9 both with SCSI
> >> >support and SCSI-support and SCSI disk support (once within the
kernel
> >> >as it's said under Documentation/README.ppa and one as all
modules).
> >> >With none of them I could mount my Iomega parallel port.
> >> > [...]
>
> >
> > Well i am not a SCSI man, however you could possably be on the
correct
> > track, considering the error msg above; =
> >
> > sda:scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
> > unable to read partition table
> > mount: /dev/sda4 is not a valid block devic8e
> >
> > The error says "sda" and that sda4 is NOT a valid device, there is no
> > mention of anything not being found, ie parport.o module, unresolved
symbols
> > or the such likes, it would even seem that vfat has been loaded or is
> > included in the kernel.
> >
> > I would imagen that device 08:00 is in laymans terms, the first
device of the
> > 8th drive, which could mean its realy /dev/sda not sdax.
>
> I don't know if i understand what u mean. But trying to mount /dev/sda
on
> /mnt/omega gives the following result:
>
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
> BUT I AM SURE that it's a DOS formatted Iomega disk !!! And there are
just
> mounted /dev/hda1 and /dev/cdrom. I guess these are not "many mounted
file
> systems"... Don't know what does it mean "bad superblock" or "bad
option"...
The superblock is the record describing the characteristics of the file
system, and it's bad if the filesystem routines concerned can't make any
sense of it. For a dos fs, the information is in the partition boot
record. If it tries to read number of fats and fat size from the MBR,
which it will try to do if you tell it to mount /dev/sda, that would
look like a bad superblock. I wonder if fdisk /dev/sda can make any
sense of it. It should, I think, see 1 partition, sda4. Do you have
data on it you need, or can you risk recreating the mbr to see if that
helps?
Maybe the Iomega disk has come too close to a strong magnet at some
point?
Lawson
>
> > [...]
> >
> > --
> > Regards Richard.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> ---
> Jose Albores <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Tu "fortune":
>
> Your wig steers the gig.
> -- Lord Buckley
>
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