Wrong fs type detected

[David J. Bakeman]

Terry Polzin wrote:

>On Sunday December 11 2005 20:52, David J. Bakeman wrote:
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>>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:
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>>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
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>>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:
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>>Disk /dev/sdc: 203.9 GB, 203927060480 bytes
>>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders
>>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
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>>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>>/dev/sdc1               1       24792   199141708+  83  Linux
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>>Any ideas??
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>When was the last time fsck was run against the partition
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Today and it didn't make any difference.  It seems to work fine mounting 
it by hand but I'd sure like to know why it fails.