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tlug: Reading 640 MB MO



Venkatesh Raghavan writes:
 > 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
You should try /dev/sda1 or if the MOs are handled like the jazz disk
maybe /dev/sda4.

Try doing an fdisk /dev/sda to see what kind of partitions you have.

Marcus

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