On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:49:42PM -0500, James Amrhein wrote:
> Hi,
>       I've been trying to mount a 60 gig backpack HD under Linux 2.4.18-18
>       I have USB and Hotplug running.
>       The only way I've gotten access to the drive is via :
> 
>                mount -v /dev/sdb /mnt/external  -t usbdevfs

You probably want to mount a partition, not the drive.  ie. you should have
a /dev/sdb1 that points at something like 
/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 (major 8 minor 0x11 [dec 17])

PK

> /var/log/messages states :
> 
> Nov 27 13:23:30 jsa kernel: FAT: bogus logical sector size 20487
> Nov 27 13:23:30 jsa kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 08:10.

PK
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