[plug] Having trouble mounting external usb drive

[Hendrik Strydom]

On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 20:44 +0800, Nikhil Jogia wrote:
> 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.
 .. snip
> >
> > 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

What does fdisk -l /dev/sda report?
Is you partition not perhaps on sda1 as it would be for a conventional
hard disk?