Unable to use Iomega prestige portable usb drive

[terpic]

Hello

I have just bought an Iomega Prestige 250gb portable usb drive. My machine can see the drive and I can open the drive in Konqueror, when I try to copy to the drive I get the following error:

Mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, missing codepage or helper program or other error in some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so

the result of dmesg | tail is:

sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
NTFS-fs error (device sdb1): parse_options(): Unrecognized mount option locale.
NTFS-fs warning (device sdb1): parse_options(): Option utf8 is no longer supported, using option nls=utf8. Please use option nls=utf8 in the future and make sure utf8 is compiled either as a module or into the kernel.
NTFS-fs error (device sdb1): parse_options(): Unrecognized mount option locale.
NTFS-fs warning (device sdb1): parse_options(): Option utf8 is no longer supported, using option nls=utf8. Please use option nls=utf8 in the future and make sure utf8 is compiled either as a module or into the kernel.
NTFS-fs error (device sdb1): parse_options(): Unrecognized mount option locale.
NTFS-fs warning (device sdb1): parse_options(): Option utf8 is no longer supported, using option nls=utf8. Please use option nls=utf8 in the future and make sure utf8 is compiled either as a module or into the kernel.
SFW2-OUT-ERROR IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=192.168.2.3 DST=195.33.66.48 LEN=52 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=12021 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=27994 DPT=80 WINDOW=17280 RES=0x00 ACK FIN URGP=0 OPT (0101080A0132F170DC133C3A)

I have tried reformatting as FAT32 and EXT3 but keep getting the same error.

Has anyone got a solution to this problem, thanks in advance.

[whych]

I take it that the drive has been used in a windows system?
As a first attempt, unplug it and delete its entry from /etc/fstab.
Reboot and plug it in after bootup.
I had problems with my removable drive that I found that removing the fstab entry fixed the problem.
If the drive has an ntfs partition, make sure you have the ntfs-3g module loaded.
The error you are getting is a kernel error for utf8.
If it mounts, and you want it to stay as a permanent device, you can use yast partion editor to format and set a mount point.

[D-cat]

Here's a little known oddball fact about ZIP drives... not only should they be formatted FAT32 since they're not large enough to warrant a large file fs, but also the filesystem should be defined as a primary partition in table number 4, not 1. While this shouldn't affect a normal iOmega device use, it might, and also can affect the ability to boot from the zip disk (if that's of interest) depending on your BIOS.

[terpic]

Thanks for the replies. I have got it going now, Yast's partition manager showed a 232gb device and same size partition, I tried to format the drive as FAT32 but it didn't work at first, I had to delete the partition and then create a new primary partition as FAT32. It came formatted as a ntfs drive with instructions on refomatting for Mac machines.

[D-cat]

The Prestige can be formatted any file system you wish (actually, NTFS or ext3 would be fine dependent on use, since FAT32 has a 4GB file size limitation), but whenever you change the file system, you have to change the partition table to match, as with any hard drive.

You can for the most part disregard my previous post, the prestige has nothing to do with ZIP or Jazz drives aside from being from Iomega. (it was 2 AM!)