[plug] Having trouble mounting external usb drive

[Open Source.Lives]

Hi Hendrik,

fdisk -l /dev/sda

Did list the filesystem, but when I try to mount it using -t ntfs or vfat it
still gave me the same error, I have tried -t usbfs, where it mounted it but
it displayed incorrect files...

I was wondering if i missed any stages when i tried to mount my usb hdd? Is
there a set way of mounting usb devices?


Thanks for the reply.

On 3/15/06, Hendrik Strydom <hns1 at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
>
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