Re: usb device

["Michael Sry" <michael_sry@hotmail.com>]

Well, The file system on the device is fat32! And it works just fine on 
windows.

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
      or too many mounted file systems

Is it possible that what is wrong is the too many mounted file systems?


> From: Eric Gaumer <gaumerel@ecs.fullerton.edu>
> To: "H. S." <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com>
> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: usb device
> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 09:30:31 -0800
>
> H. S. wrote:
> > What exactly is your device? Have you tried "-t msdos", "-t ntfs" etc?
> >
> > I had a similar problem while trying to mount a newly bought USB stick
> > (Lexar). It was mountable and writeabel and readable under Windows XP
> > but not under Linux running 2.6.9 and 2.6.10. It turns out that I had to
> > format it and make a filesystem. After that it worked perfectly in both
> > the OSes.
>
> Yes definitely check the filesystem on the device. The device seems to be
> detected and the proper module loaded. I would speculate that the 
> filesystem
> is either corrupt, encrypted, or not a FAT filesystem. You can always 
> format
> the device to use FAT.
>
> 	-Eric
>
> --
> "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in 
> school."
> 	- Albert Einstein
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