On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 14:37 +0000, James wrote: > Well I hate to be the only one answering my posts.... > > I think I found the problem. Linux does not think a (v)FAT > file system is on the drive. From dmesg I get this: > > Late last I night I got this response to a manual attempt to > mount the drive: > > mount -t vfat /dev/sdb /mnt/usbdrive > Based on your dmesg output, shouldn't you be mounting /dev/sdb1 (as opposed to /dev/sdb)?
> # dmesg | tail > sdb: Mode Sense: 1c 00 00 00 > sdb: assuming drive cache: write through > sdb: sdb1 > sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb > sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 > usb-storage: device scan complete > FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors > VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb. > FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors > VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb. > -- Albert W. Hopkins -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
