Iomega USB external hard drive

[David Zeuthen]

Hi,

I think that the problem here is that the software that you used for
formatting the partitions has a bug - specifically, the problem is that
the file system signatures for ext3 start at offset 0x400 while it
starts at offset 0 for FAT. Thus, on a ext3 filesystem you may have what
looks as a valid vfat signature and the bug is that the software you
used for formatting the ext3 file system should have cleared the first
0x400 bytes but it didn't. You may do that manually yourself though.

I'm not sure how to best approach this problem, maybe we should probe
for ext3 (and other fs'es where the super block isn't at offset 0)
before vfat? I just remember a whole lot of problems when we did that
and I think we changed it for a reason. What do you think Kay?

David



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