Re: tlug: Reading 640 MB MO

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:

> Hello,
> I have a 640MB MO Drive on my Linux Machine. I can can 230MB
> "MSDOS" formatted MO but when I try mounting the 230MB
> "MSDOS" formatted MO disk, I get the following error;
> 
> "unable to read partion table
> mount:/dev/sda is not a valid block"
> 
> the mount command I am using is
> 
> mount -t msdos /dev/sda /mnt
> 
> Can anyone tell me how do I read 640 MB MO disk on Linux.

OK, Chris, help me out on this one - I think you need a 2.1.x kernel,
since you need support for larger inodes which the 2.0.x kernel doesn't
have...

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