Wrong fs type detected

[David J. Bakeman]

Falko Pilz wrote:

>Am Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:42:14 -0800
>schrieb "David J. Bakeman" <dbakeman at comcast.net>:
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>>Terry Polzin wrote:
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>>>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.
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>What does hotplug write to your fstab when you connect the drive? 
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/dev/sdc1               /media/ieee1394disk1    vfat    
pamconsole,exec,noauto,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,managed 0 0

So it thinks it's vfat but why does it think this?