Re: external HDD

Michael Heiming wrote:

In comp.os.linux.misc ivan danicic <ivan@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
Roby wrote:

ivan danicic wrote:

Hello All, I'd like to use this 160 Gb iomega usb HDD but I can't
mount it. I have read a lot of suggestions but nothing works. I
think this is device /dev/sda5 and it is an ext2 partition but
whatever I put into fstab I get an error message of type "wrong
fs..." or "no medium found". Any suggestions gratefully
received.
Ivan

Hello, No. My dmesg talks only about /dev/sda2 which is an
extended w95 partition which somehow contains the sda5 which
fails; alas I know nothing about these things.

Show us the output from the following command (as root):

fdisk -l /dev/sda

Hello:Here it is:
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 6708 53881978+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2 6709 19457 102406342+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 6709 19457 102406311 83 Linux

Ivan

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