Re: Assessing USB Mass Storage devices

On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 07:05:30PM +0100, Mark C wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-09-15 at 13:51, Rich Thompson wrote:
> > Looks to me like the fstab entry is funny. Try two things...
> > 
> > first:
> > 
> > >mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera
> > 
> > if successful then add:
> > 
> > /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera  msdos   defaults    0 0
> > 
> > to fstab and that should do the trick.
> > 
> 
> Nope, try /dev/dsa and sda1, gives either:
> 
> [root@stimpy dev]# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera
> mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
> 
> [root@stimpy dev]# mount /dev/sda
> /mnt/camera                                                                                                                               /dev/sda: Input/output error
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> 
> or with file system types:
> 
> [root@stimpy dev]# mount -t autofs /dev/sda /mnt/camera
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
>        or too many mounted file systems
> [root@stimpy dev]# mount -t msdos /dev/sda
> /mnt/camera                                                                                                                      mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
>        or too many mounted file systems
> 

Try 
mount -t msdos /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera                                                                                                                      
But I am betting it will not work since the autodetect of fs type failed.

try:
fdisk -l /dev/sda

Chuck