Am Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:42:14 -0800 schrieb "David J. Bakeman" <dbakeman@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > Terry Polzin wrote: > > >On Sunday December 11 2005 20:52, David J. Bakeman wrote: > > > > > >>I have a external firewire drive formatted as ext3 under RH7.2. When I > >>plug it in to my new FC4 machine it complains with the following: > >> > >>FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature. > >> Found signature1 0x00000000 signature2 0x00000000 (sector = 1) > >>FAT: Filesystem panic (dev sdb1) > >> invalid access to FAT (entry 0x00c0000f) > >> File system has been set read-only > >> > >> > >>I have to manually mount it as ext3 and everything is fine. I have two > >>other external firewire drives one formatted FAT32 and the other ext3 > >>both of these are recognized correctly and automatically mounted. > >>Here's the output from fdisk for the drive that isn't recognized: > >> > >>Disk /dev/sdc: 203.9 GB, 203927060480 bytes > >>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders > >>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > >> > >> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > >>/dev/sdc1 1 24792 199141708+ 83 Linux > >> > >> > >>Any ideas?? > >> > >> > >When was the last time fsck was run against the partition > > > > > > > Today and it didn't make any difference. It seems to work fine mounting > it by hand but I'd sure like to know why it fails. > What does hotplug write to your fstab when you connect the drive?
