Hi there,

On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Johannes Liedtke wrote:

> mount -t vfat /dev/sda /media/mp3player

I don't think it should be mounted as vfat.

> I should mount one of the four partitions and not the whole disc, right?

That's what I'd have thought.

> # fdisk -l /dev/sda
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 8 heads, 62 sectors, 1019 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 496 * 512 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   ?   3870869   4968525 272218546+  20  Unknown

You have a 272 Gigabyte memory stick?  I think this filesystem is
trashed.  Why not reformat it and try again?

> But I can't mount any of those:
> ==============================================================
> # mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/mp3player
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
>        or too many mounted file systems

I think the first of those possible problems is the right one.

> Feb  7 21:49:29 cuddle kernel: FAT: unable to read boot sector

Unable to read boot sector because somebody wrote music on it...

73,
Ged.




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