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. > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send your FREE holiday greetings online! > http://greetings.yahoo.com
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