On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 23:17, Andy Green wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 12 March 2004 11:53, Wolfgang wrote: > > > I decided to try it on the Win2K box, and it read it ok too. So I then > > reformatted it on the Win-2K box, and then went back to the RH9 box, and > > low and behold it worked!!. I was seen to have 4 partitions, (It's a 1G > > It seems that some OSes directly format the device without making a partition > table, such that you have to actually mount /dev/sda for example. Others > make the partition table during the partition / format process and then > you're looking at mounting /dev/sda1 for example. > > No idea if that was actually the problem but I thought it worth mentioning. > > - -Andy [snip] That's possible. This was a new device, I took out of a NEW box today (Never been opened before). It was driving me nuts, until I accidentally fell upon trying the approach I mentioned above. Wolf
