Did you try to mount sda or sda1? On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Alan Chandler wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have a Belkin usb smartmedia reader/writer that I have just purchased. > > I have managed to connect it up to my system and it is seen as /dev/sda by > linux. At least it reports different things when a smartmedia card is > inserted and when it is not. > > The problem comes when I try and mount /dev/sda. The card has been freshly > formatted by my Digital Camera (Olympus C220 Zoom), but mount cannot > automatically determine file type. Attempts to specify the type as either > msdos or vfat (which is what I thought it should be) fail. > > I can't find any explanation of this part of the process in most of the howtos > - - most assume it just works. The closest explanation is someone who has the > same camera reporting that the camera doesn't use the correct identification > strings and he has patched the usb-storage module to recognize his string. > > But I think that is not the problem here - the use of a separate reader/writer > bypasses it. So what filesystem should I see? > - -- > Alan Chandler > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE9n++LuFHxcV2FFoIRAkUoAJ9ugdCB9AWDge+MSBCvJODySkVP3gCglzTL > Gs1zx5zXqX0vtM0U0tu2rtY= > =GdbR > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users > -- /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy | SLAC, MailStop 34, | |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road, | |http://calendar.yahoo.com/gowdy | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA | |EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +1 650 926 3144 | \------------------------------------+-------------------------/ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
