On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Stuart Luppescu wrote:

> Hi, I'm having trouble getting a Sony Micro Vault 512MB USB memory
> device to work with Linux. It works ok in Windows, so I know the
> hardware is ok. 
> 
> When I modprobe usb-storage and plug it in, I get this in the log:
> Jun  2 13:51:17 musuko Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> Jun  2 13:51:17 musuko scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage
> devices
> Jun  2 13:51:17 musuko Vendor: Sony      Model: Storage Media     Rev:
> PROL
> Jun  2 13:51:17 musuko Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI
> SCSI revision: 02
> Jun  2 13:51:17 musuko Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id
> 0, lun 0,  type 0
> Jun  2 13:51:17 musuko USB Mass Storage device found at 3
> Jun  2 13:51:17 musuko drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver
> usb-storage
> Jun  2 13:51:17 musuko USB Mass Storage support registered.
> Jun  2 13:51:27 musuko SCSI device sda: 1024000 512-byte hdwr sectors
> (524 MB)
> Jun  2 13:51:27 musuko sda: assuming Write Enabled
> Jun  2 13:51:27 musuko sda: assuming drive cache: write through
> Jun  2 13:51:27 musuko /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4
> Jun  2 13:51:27 musuko Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0,
> channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> 
> It shows up as 4 SCSI disks /dev/sda[1:4]. Mounting partitions 1-3 gives
> funny messages (sorry, I can't reproduce them here), but when I try to
> mount /dev/sda4 it says, mount: /dev/sda4: can't read superblock

> Look at those weird partition types! I would be inclined to repartition
> the whole thing, but unfortunately, it's my boss's device. 
> 
> Anyone have any ideas on how to deal with this? Thanks.

Maybe you need to mount /dev/sda, not /dev/sda4.

Alan Stern



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