unknown partition table

[William Park]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 06:09:51PM -0400, Daniel Armstrong wrote:
> I have a external USB hard drive with 2 partitions (sda1 -swap, sda2
> -ext3) that I regularly attach to my main box as a backup drive.
> Today, when I attached this external drive it states it has a "unknown
> partition table" and refuses to mount.
...
> Jun 29 17:38:42 kambei kernel:   Vendor: WDC WD16  Model: 00JB-00GVA0

>From top of my head:
    1. WDC -- good life lesson here.
    2. bad USB enclosure -- take the harddisk out of USB enclosure, and
	    connect directly to IDE cable.

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