Accessing Maxtor Firewire drive

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Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 10:29:47 GMT

I've got a dual boot system with RedHat 9 and Windows XP. I've just added
a firewire card and can now see an
80GB Maxto Firewire drive that was previously connected to another Windows
machine.

dmesg sees shows the following:

Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sdc: 160086528 512-byte hdwr sectors (81964 MB)
  sdc: sdc1

However, when I try and do

  mount -t vfat /dev/sdc /mnt/sdc

I get the response:

   mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc,
        or too many mounted file systems

If I do:

  /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdc

I get the response:

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 9964.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
    (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)

The drive has just one partition I think and is currently over 70GB full.

Any ideas what I need to do? Many thanks -

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