> What does "mount /dev/sda /mnt/something" do? It seems to mount OK.
Then you have no partitions, I think. About one year ago I formatted a pen drive (mp3 player also) with mkfs.vfat and the mp3 player would not work. I did something like mkfs.vfat /dev/sdX After a lot of tries I thought I had damaged it. I had to format it with MS/Windows so that it could work again... just a horror tale. Regards, N. -- http://arhuaco.org http://emQbit.com