pkfox
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Seagate Freeagent drive

Thu Apr 24, 2014 11:57 am

Hi all, I have a 750gb Seagate FreeAgent USB drive which is formatted as ext4, when I plug it into any of my Linux boxes it either automounts or shows up in /dev as /dev/sdb or similar, BUT ! when I plug it in to my Raspberry Pi ( I plug it in before I boot it ) it shows up in /dev/ as /dev/sda but there are no /dev/sda1 or sda2 entries so obviously I can't mount it - any ideas ? the drive has about 200gb of flac files on it which I want to share using the Pi. TIA

I get this from dmesg
Code:
108.190853] EXT4-fs (sda): bad block size 16384


And this from fdisk
Code:

Disk /dev/sda: 750.2 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders, total 1465149168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0007c34f

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

elatllat
Posts: 1337
Joined: Sat Dec 17, 2011 5:05 pm

Re: Seagate Freeagent drive

Fri Apr 25, 2014 2:49 am

What is the block size reported by working systems?

http://www.linfo.org/get_block_size.html
SBC with 32GB RAM: https://hardkernel.com

FAQ : https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com

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gkreidl
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Joined: Thu Jan 26, 2012 1:07 pm
Location: Germany

Re: Seagate Freeagent drive

Fri Apr 25, 2014 7:21 am

Do you connect it directly to an USB port of the RPi? Then try connecting it through a powered USB hub.
Minimal Kiosk Browser (kweb)
Slim, fast webkit browser with support for audio+video+playlists+youtube+pdf+download
Optional fullscreen kiosk mode and command interface for embedded applications
Includes omxplayerGUI, an X front end for omxplayer

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