[LUGSB] Problem wtih pen drive

[Vinay Pai]

If the device has a partition table on it (which the long device name
seems to suggest) you probably want to mount /dev/sda1 not /dev/sda.  

Check "fdisk -l /dev/sda" to be sure you're mounting the right
partition.

If that doesn't work, I'm out of ideas

On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 08:49 -0400, Skip Evans wrote:
> I've tried both. From reading many pages on Google I found
> a reference to the long device name being a link to /dev/sda,
> the actual device. (Pseudo device name, I believe the long one
> was called.)
> 
> Vinay Pai wrote:
> 
> >Wait... if its /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part1, why are you
> >trying to mount /dev/sda?
> >
> >
> >On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 08:18 -0400, Skip Evans wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hello Thomas and all,
> >>
> >>I have tried that option as well, with the same
> >>results.
> >>
> >>Skip
> >>
> >>Thomas Levine wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Change msdos to vfat.
> >>>
> >>>2005/5/3, Skip Evans <skip at venomouspenguin.com 
> >>><mailto: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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