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Can't mount
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Posted by: moini

Hello Tivo gurus,
I hope someone has a solution to my problem. Here are the details.

I have a brand new sat t60 that I want to add a second drive to. To be safe I am trying to back up the original drive. So I downloaded the Tiger’s Mfs Tools 2.0, and made a bootable cd. Followed the instruction as to hard drive connections. System boots fine. I can see the drives are recognized as explained in the instructions.

--hda: windows drive(actually it is a 40 gig maxtor it is bootable and there is nothing else on it. this it the one I want to backup the original to)
--hdb: CD ROM drive
--hdc: Tivo drive

At # prompt I type:
mkdir /mnt/dos (no problem)
mount /dev/hda /mnt/dos
a message is displayed: mount: you mus specify file system

here is where I get stuck.

I tried all the command line options;
nodma: same result
swap: system panic and lockup
dmaswap: system panic and lockup

Any suggestions is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Posted by: andrewket

You likely have a partition set up on your Windows machine. Try:

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos

If that doesn't work, try:

dmesg |more

And look for the scanning of hda and see what the partitions are. Alternatively, you could do:

fdisk /dev/hda

And then issue the command 'p' at the fdisk prompt. This will display the table. Quit out of that and then use the mount command:

mount /dev/hda<x> /mnt/dos

-A

Posted by: Robert S

You tried to mount hda. This is a misprint in a version of Hinsdale that's getting passed around. Download the current version from the link in his thread here.

You need to mount hda1 instead.

Posted by: moini

Thank you for your suggestions. I just came back from my buddy's house with a back up pc.

You are correct there are two partitions on the windows machine. I will try hda1 and let you know how it works.

Thanks again

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