On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 11:08 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote: > Okay, the current /etc/fstab file has this entry in it: > /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat > rw,noauto,user,uid=512,gid=1002 0 0 > > When I run "mount -a", I get no errors. > > But when go to the /mnt/windows directory at the command line, it's empty. > > In Nautilus, I get an icon for the new drive, but if I click on it, I > get that same error as before: > wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda, or too many > mounted file systems > > I had no trouble before with CentOS detecting and using a Fat32 external > hard drive, connected by firewire. Why is this drive behaving differently? ---- possibilities: - mount is not made by same user doing cd /mnt/windows - mount is not made by same user running gnome/nautilus - mount references /dev/hda1 but hard drive has different device assignment dmesg| less #check to see if the drive is assigned a different letter df -h shows mounted filesystems and usage are you user 512? are you running mount as yourself and not root? has the drive been fixed with scandisk/checkdisk since the assault by linux fsck? short answer, it shouldn't make a difference being connected via internal IDE or external firewire except as external firewire, it would be assigned something more like /dev/sda instead of /dev/hda Craig