Re: Assessing USB Mass Storage devices

Hello,
On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 10:30:04PM +0100, Mark C wrote:
> Now trying to mount from /dev/sda (this is the only device I found it
> could be on from the above output) to the console output:
> 
> [root@stimpy root]# mount -t auto /dev/sda /mnt/camera
> SCSI device (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
> SCSI device sda: 16384 512-byte hdwr sectors (8 MB)
> sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
>  I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I haven't got the slightest idea why it can't read the sector, but
this the thing to solve. Try to see whether you can read other sectors:
	dd if=/dev/sda bs=512 skip=NUMBER of=dump
where NUMBER is 0 ... 16383. But you pretty much need to be able
to read sector 0 in order to access the filesystem.
	Mirek