On Sunday 30 December 2001 22:27, you wrote:
> I've seen several threads concerning people trying to
> make USB compact flash/smart media readers work, but
> this hasn't been fully resolved in all cases. I have
> been reading this thread because I have a USB
> microtech compact flash card reader and I have been
> having the same problem attempting to mount it as
> others have.
> Here's the information from Harddrake:
>
> Vendor: eUSB
> Model: Compact Flash
> Device: /dev/sda
> Bus Type: SCSI
> Capacity: 1047 MB
> Heads: 64
> Sectors: 32
> Cylinders: 1023
>
> Here's my fstab entry:
>
> /dev/sda  /media/camera vfat ro,noauto,user  0 0
>
> This is the response I get when attempting to mount
> this device:
>
> mount -t vfat /dev/sda /media/camera
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
> /dev/sda, or too many mounted file systems
>
> I hope someone can shed some light on why this won't
> mount.
> Thanks for the help.
>
> TC
>

Dont mount as /dev/sda, mount as /dev/sda1.  /dev/sda is the, as I see it, 
top of the sda device list, the header, and sda1, sda2, are the devices.

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