Unable to access my TiVo drive on PC

[ksv666]

Hi,

I am changing the title a bit as no one seemed to help. I connected my TiVo drive (and my backup of it) to my PC. I have tried booting up with Kaysmyr, MFS Tools, and Jenkins, but I cannpot mount the partitions. Every time I try, I get the following message:

Success
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

I cannot see the drive or the partitions. I have done this a bunch of times and have never had this problem. I'm not even sure how to trouble shoot this. Please let me know what you think is going on. It sounds like a obvious problem.

Here are the steps I followed:

- I booted off of CD using jenkins.iso.
- Looged in as root
- Created /mnt4 (mkdir /mnt4)
- mount /dev/hde4 /mnt4 (hde is the drive)
- It says successful, but then has the comment "mount: you must specify the filesystem type" and does not recognize the dev.

Thanks,

-Kirk

[funtoupgrade]

I think you have too many IDE controllers. Are you using SATA drives along with regular IDE drives? In any case, it's my recollection that the MFStools is only looking for a maximum of 4 drives on the primary and secondary IDE channels.

[HomeUser]

Look at the boot messages is the drive seen in the boot process.

Two Linux commands I use to check what Linux sees the drive as
dmesg | grep ide
cat /proc/partitions

If you are using the boot floppies they are not LBA48 aware you need to boot from the LBA48 aware CD's

[ksv666]

you are right...I was using my RAID controller on the mother board instead of the other IDE controller. Oops...

I will try to use Jenkins and see how it goes.

Thanks!

[ksv666]

that was totally the problem...thanks!!!!

The odd thing, is my entire "hack" directory was missing. The .author, .profile, rc.net, and the like were there, but the hack directory and all it's sub directories were missing. Any idea why that happened?

All is well now, but it just seems odd.