Hi, Surely if it's unformatted you don't want to mount it? Perhaps you want to make a filesystem on it using mkreiserfs or similar , passing /dev/sda as the drive to format...
IIRC sda1 is the first partition on the sda device, and wont work if theres no partitions (i.e. unformatted). Rob. On Apr 7, 2005 8:17 AM, Voytek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <quote who="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> > > On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 11:34:13PM +1000, Voytek wrote: > >> I'm trying to mount USB IDE HD > > > Put the options before the files. This goes for pretty much > > any unix/linux command: > > > > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbhd > > already tried, returns same errors > whatever 't' option I've tried > what 't' option for an unformatted HD ? > > -- > Voytek > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- Rob Sharp -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
