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