Wrong fs type detected

Terry Polzin fox3ec208 at wideopenwest.com
Mon Dec 12 04:00:44 UTC 2005


On Sunday December 11 2005 20:52, David J. Bakeman wrote:
> I have a external firewire drive formatted as ext3 under RH7.2.  When I
> plug it in to my new FC4 machine it complains with the following:
>
> FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature.
>      Found signature1 0x00000000 signature2 0x00000000 (sector = 1)
> FAT: Filesystem panic (dev sdb1)
>     invalid access to FAT (entry 0x00c0000f)
>     File system has been set read-only
>
>
> I have to manually mount it as ext3 and everything is fine.  I have two
> other external firewire drives one formatted FAT32 and the other ext3
> both of these are recognized correctly and automatically mounted.
> Here's the output from fdisk for the drive that isn't recognized:
>
> Disk /dev/sdc: 203.9 GB, 203927060480 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdc1               1       24792   199141708+  83  Linux
>
>
> Any ideas??
When was the last time fsck was run against the partition

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