[LUGSB] Problem wtih pen drive

Thomas Levine thomas.levine at gmail.com
Wed May 4 06:26:06 EDT 2005


Change msdos to vfat.

2005/5/3, Skip Evans <skip at venomouspenguin.com>:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I am new to the list, and am using Xandros Desktop 2.0, a Debian
> based distribution, and just purchased a Rosewill 1.5GB RJB1536
> pen drive.
> 
> The Xandros file manager seems to recognize the device, and calls
> it /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
> 
> But not one of a dozen attempts I've made to mount the device
> seems to work.
> 
> My latest is this. I have placed this entry in /etc/fstab:
> 
> /dev/sda /mnt/flash msdos user,noauto 0 0
> 
> And when I try to mount it, I get this:
> 
> linux1:/etc# mount -t msdos /dev/sda /mnt/flash
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
> or too many mounted file systems
> 
> Any advice would be greatly, greatly appreciated.
> 
> Skip
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