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anonfoo
05-13-2003, 03:43 PM
I want to mount the tivo drive on my PC. I booted up using Dylans Boot Disk and tried the usual

mount /dev/hda /mnt/td
mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/td
mount /dev/hda7 /mnt/td

actually tried hda4 or 7 and hdb

when I boot up the boot text says my drive is hda

When I try to mount hda it says
fatfs: Bogus Cluster Size
VFS: Cant find a valid MSDOS file system
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

When I try hda4 or 7 I get
/dev/hda4(7): succeeded
FAT Breed Failed
FAT Breed Failed
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

What is the filesystem I need to use? or the command? or what am I doing wrong?

one other thing is that this is not the original tivo drive. I upgraded the drive a while back and running version 2.5. Tivo works fine with it but I cant get a bash prompt thats what I intend to fix once I can mount it, I think I screwed up my .bashrc or something.

Thanks in advance

BubbleLamp
05-13-2003, 03:59 PM
You can't use hda, that's primary master, and isn't byte-swapped. You must connect your drive as anything other than primary master.

anonfoo
05-13-2003, 04:04 PM
awsome, made it slave, worked like a charm!

Thanks!!!