Ryo Furue wrote:
What you've done is pretty much what I'd have done. Disk Manager is software for DOS-family operating systems so they can use drives not supported in the BIOS, typically larger than the current BIOS limit.# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt
didn't work. (The error message was to the effect of wrong filesystem.) I tried "ext2" in place of "vfat" unsuccesfully. Finally, I looked into the disk by fdisk and found that the partitioning didn't make sense to me. The partition boundaries didn't allign with cylinder boundaries; the partition IDs were 53 (Disk Manager 6.0 Aux3), 67 (68 or 69, I forgot which, but it was Novell), and something which wasn't in the ID list (http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html).
Hmm. Since the tech guy said I could erase anything and since I was in a hurry, I erased all the existing partitions, created a fresh one, and formatted the disk as an ext2 filesystem. That's what I'm now using. It works perfectly fine. But, since I formatted it as an ext2 filesystem, it won't work with Windows any longer.
So, I have a feeling that I did something wrong. What was the "right" way? How do you think the tech guy used the drive? The partition ID 53 (Disk Manager), which I don't know what it is, smells something related, but . . . Additional questions are, what should one do to share a firewire drive between Linux and Windows? What about hotplugging?
One thing I would have done is install hotplug. My USB drive pretty much just works when I plug it into anything. No mucking around with modules.
Maybe your techo gave you the wrong drive and it had important data on it:-)
btw fdisk has a list of partition types built into it: Command (m for help): l
0 Empty 1c Hidden W95 FAT3 70 DiskSecure Mult bb Boot Wizard hid
1 FAT12 1e Hidden W95 FAT1 75 PC/IX be Solaris boot
2 XENIX root 24 NEC DOS 80 Old Minix c1 DRDOS/sec (FAT-
etc
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