Hi Hendrik,<br>
<br>
fdisk -l /dev/sda<br>
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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...<br>
<br>
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?<br>
<br>
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Thanks for the reply.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/15/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Hendrik Strydom</b> <<a href="mailto:hns1@iinet.net.au">hns1@iinet.net.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 20:44 +0800, Nikhil Jogia wrote:<br>> Open Source.Lives wrote:<br>> > Hi there,<br>> ><br>> > Currently i am trying to mount my external usb drive, i am using<br>> > debian sarge with a
2.4 kernal and the following dmesg tells me that<br>> > is detected, but when i try to mount it it tells me that the volume is<br>> > probably in a format that cannot be mounted in the GUI.<br> .. snip<br>> >
<br>> > sg_scan -i<br>> ><br>> > /dev/sg0: scsi1 channel=0 id=0 lun=0 [em]<br>>
>
IC35L040 AVVN07-0 VA2O
[rmb=0 cmdq=0 pqual=0 pdev=0x0]<br>> ><br>> > and<br>> ><br>> > sg_map<br>> ><br>> > /dev/sg0 /dev/sda<br>> ><br>> > and for fstab<br>> ><br>>
>
/dev/sda /media/usb_drive vfat<br>>
>
rw,user,noauto 0
0<br>> ><br>> > while on the console.<br>> ><br>> > mount -t vfat /dev/sda /media/usb_drive<br>> ><br>> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,<br>> > missing codepage or other error
<br>> > In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try<br>> > dmesg | tail or so<br><br>What does fdisk -l /dev/sda report?<br>Is you partition not perhaps on sda1 as it would be for a conventional
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