Floppy disks aren't partitioned....are they? Surely that's why fdisk prints rubbish.
Try mount -t ext3 /dev/sda /mnt/usbdisk1 (drop the '1' off /dev/sda1) but replace ext3 if necessary with the type. vfat is more common if you are using 'Windows' floppies. Dave On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 15:18, Uwe Brauer wrote: > On 14 Apr 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Jörg, > > Thanks for your help > > > > > #fdisk -l /dev/sda > > This gives me a truely odd result > --8<------------------------schnipp------------------------->8--- > fdisk -l /dev/sda > > Disk /dev/sda: 1 MB, 1474560 bytes > 1 heads, 3 sectors/track, 960 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 3 * 512 = 1536 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 ? 639983657 1263044256 934590898+ 61 SpeedStor > Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): > phys=(364, 109, 48) logical=(639983656, 0, 2) > Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: > phys=(288, 99, 37) logical=(1263044255, 0, 1) > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/sda2 ? 639749586 1195614002 833796624 75 PC/IX > Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): > phys=(99, 101, 32) logical=(639749585, 0, 3) > Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings: > phys=(369, 97, 44) logical=(1195614001, 0, 2) > Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/sda3 ? 179658763 645779734 699181456 0 Empty > Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): > phys=(10, 97, 13) logical=(179658762, 0, 3) > Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings: > phys=(288, 73, 15) logical=(645779733, 0, 1) > Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. > /dev/sda4 ? 1820786 1820786 0 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux3 > Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): > phys=(335, 83, 4) logical=(1820785, 0, 1) > Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings: > phys=(32, 32, 32) logical=(1820784, 0, 3) > Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. > > Partition table entries are not in disk order > --8<------------------------schnapp------------------------->8--- > > > > > > > > which should list your partition table of your TEAC RemovableDisk > > and after this has run out successfully you should try something > > like > > #mdkir /mnt/usbdisk1 #mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdisk1 > > Problem > > /dev/sda1: Input/output error > mount: you must specify the filesystem type > > So if I try to do this I get > > mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdisk1 > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, > or too many mounted file systems > > > Etc. > > What is wrong? > > Uwe > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
