[plug] Having trouble mounting external usb drive

[Nikhil Jogia]

Open Source.Lives wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Currently i am trying to mount my external usb drive, i am using 
> debian sarge with a 2.4 kernal and the following dmesg tells me that 
> is detected, but when i try to mount it it tells me that the volume is 
> probably in a format that cannot be mounted in the GUI.
>
>
> part of dmesg
>
> Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
> i810_rng: RNG not detected
> scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
>   Vendor: IC35L040  Model: AVVN07-0          Rev: VA2O
>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
> USB Mass Storage device found at 2
> USB Mass Storage support registered.
> i810_rng: RNG not detected
> hw_random: RNG not detected
> hw_random: RNG not detected
> hw_random: RNG not detected
> apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x02 (Driver version 1.16)
> Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> SCSI device sda: 80418240 512-byte hdwr sectors (41174 MB)
>  /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
> FAT: bogus logical sector size 64543
> VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 08:00.
> FAT: bogus logical sector size 64543
> VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 08:00.
>
> On console I used...
>
> sg_scan -i
>
> /dev/sg0: scsi1 channel=0 id=0 lun=0 [em]
>     IC35L040  AVVN07-0          VA2O [rmb=0 cmdq=0 pqual=0 pdev=0x0]
>
> and
>
> sg_map
>
> /dev/sg0  /dev/sda
>
> and for fstab
>
> /dev/sda        /media/usb_drive        vfat    
> rw,user,noauto                  0       0
>
> while on the console.
>
> mount -t vfat /dev/sda /media/usb_drive
>
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
>        missing codepage or other error
>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>        dmesg | tail  or so
>
> Can someone shed some light into this.
>
> Thanks.
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I always hate to assume things, but assuming that the data is 
replaceable/backup-able (40GB might not be), you could always fdisk and 
format the drive.