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Re: Help! Not able to mount FAT filesystems



According to Pablo Gil, on Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:01:41 +0200, 
>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
>> 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.

Shouldn't you try to mount sda1 instead of sda?

I use the following line in fstab:

/dev/sda1       /mnt/usb1       vfat   noatime,noauto,user,rw,exec,sync       0



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