Pablo Gil wrote:
Hi everyone!I'm fed up with this. I've been trying for weeks with no results. I've got an external HD and a camera. Both are vfat devices. As long as I know (and I'm pretty sure cos i've checked) I've the right kernel options enabled, but I can not mount them.When I try to use the camera dmesg says this:usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Vendor: FUJIFILM Model: USB-DRIVEUNIT Rev: 1.00 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08 sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08 sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda: sda1
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Important.
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi4, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi4, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.
^^^
sda != sda1
And when I try to mount the HD I get this:usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Vendor: ST380021 Model: A Rev: 0811 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB) sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB) sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda: sda1 sda2
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Again.
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi5, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi5, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete FAT: bogus number of FAT structure VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.
^^^
You're still trying to mount the drive, rather than the partition.
You didn't show the commands you're using, but it looks like they're
mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/point
when you should be mounting sda1 or sda2, as the situation warrants.
HTH
Jacob