Ok, solved my initial problem and now I have a new one. I've worked all day
on this to no avail. Even though this is a backpack hardrive, I've changed
out the 30GB drive with a 100GB drive. (Windows reports it at 93GB) It is
partitioned as one large partition, with the FAT32 file system. It has worked
great under windows, so I know that there isn't anything wrong with the drive
or formating/partitioning (at least as far as microsoft is concerned). insmod
pd loads without error messages. The DMESG output messages after this
description.
Next I added the mountpoint mnt/bphd and the following line to /ect/fstab
/dev/pda1 /mnt/bphd vfat defaults 0 0
I'm ready to mount. The mount command (mount -t vfat /dev/pda1 /mnt/bphd)
however returns a message of: wrong fs, bad option, bad superblock on
/dev/pda1, or too many mounted file systems. I also get the same error
message using the KDE & Gnome mount tool. I have included the DMESG output
messages for the mount right after the insmod output messages at the end of
this dialog.
Am I missing some parameter(s) in the insmod pd command maybe? I noticed that
I could try to mount /dev/pda2, pda3, & pda4 and watch the drive light go on
the external backpack hd and receive the same mount error I received with
/dev/pda1... It is as if Linux thought it was 4 separate drives.
The FAT: bogus logical sector size 3304 message line in the DMESG output file
puzzles me also.
dmesg readout after insmod pd
******************************************
pd: pd version 1.05, major 45, cluster 64, nice 0
pda: Sharing parport0 at 0x378
pda: BACKPACK Protocol Driver V2.0.2
pda: Copyright 2001 by Micro Solutions, Inc., DeKalb IL.
pda: BACKPACK 2.0.2, Micro Solutions BACKPACK Drive at 0x378
pda: Unit: 64 Mode:1 (8-bit) Delay 0
pda: , master, 452874240 blocks [221130M], (65488/65488/65488), removable
media
pda: pda1 pda2 pda3 pda4
*******************************************
dmesg readout after mount
****************************************
pda: , master, 452874240 blocks [221130M], (65488/65488/65488), removable
media
pda: pda1 pda2 pda3 pda4
FAT: bogus logical sector size 3304
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 2d:01.
pda: Lock done: status = 0x451 = ERR SEEK READY ABRT
pda: Lock: status = 0x451 = ERR SEEK READY ABRT
pda: Lock: status = 0x451 = ERR SEEK READY ABRT
*********************************************************
Any help that anyone could provide would be very appreciative.
Thanks in advance for all your help!
-Robert
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