HELP: Problems mounting Windows disk under Linux (TIVO)

[Jerry Feldman]

On thing I see wrong here. It appears that both IDE drives are on your 
primary channel. Disk numbering works like:
hda - primary master
hdb - primary slave
hdc - secondary master
hdd - secondary slave. 
It is better if you have 2 hard drives to put them on different IDE 
channels, but they work fine on the same channel.
I routinely mount Windows Vfat partitons on my Linux system.
Another thing, you need to have the DOS FAT and Windows VFAT file systems 
built either into your kernel or as modules.
Robert La Ferla wrote:
> Help...  I'm upgrading my Tivo (Linux) by adding a second IDE hard drive
> but I have to make a backup of my drive first.  Here's my problem:  I
> have a new 40GB IDE disk set initially as a "master".  Using a Win98
> startup floppy, I ran "fdisk" and created a single primary partition.  I
> then formatted the C: drive using "format".  I switched the jumper on
> the new drive to "slave", and added my original Tivo drive as "master"
> and rebooted using a special Linux boot floppy (TivoMad in case you're
> interested.)  Here I have to mount the slave drive so I can backup the
> original drive as a "file" on the new ide disk.  When I type:  "mount
> /dev/hdd1 /mnt/dos", it gives me a "FAT bread" error.  What do I need to
> do to get this to work?  BTW -- I want to be able to use the ide disk in
> my Windows box after doing this backup so I can't use ext2.
> 
> Thanks,
> Robert
> 
> Tivo Upgrade:
> http://www.newreleasesvideo.com/hinsdale-how-to/
> 
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