Hi there...

I recently bought an Apacer Audio Steno AV220 which would work under Slackware-Current (29/08/2005, later upgraded to Slackware 10.2 via slapt-get). After I accidentaly deleted /usr/share I had to wipe out my root partition ( / ). I'm trying to use it together with autofs. (Same distro, kernel 2.6.13.2) But it simply stopped even mounting. lsusb will list it properly:

bash-3.00# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1005:1007 Apacer Technology, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0583:a000 Padix Co., Ltd (Rockfire)
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

So will dmesg...

usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 5
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 5
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: Model: MP3 Flash Drive Rev: 1.01
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sda: 253952 512-byte hdwr sectors (130 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 253952 512-byte hdwr sectors (130 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: unknown partition table
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete


and also cdrecord -scanbus:
2,0,0 200) ' ' 'MP3 Flash Drive ' '1.01' Removable Disk

but when I attempt to mount it, this is what I get.

bash-3.00# mount -t auto /dev/sda1 mnt/
mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device

I get the same message with /dev/sg1

bash-3.00# mount -t auto /dev/sg1 mnt/
mount: /dev/sg1 is not a block device

Furthermore, cfdisk won't even open it either.

cfdisk /dev/sda
cfdisk /dev/sga

FATAL ERROR: Cannot open disk drive
Press any key to exit cfdisk

Here is a list of all my modules:

bash-3.00# lsmod
Module Size Used by
snd_pcm_oss 47392 0
snd_mixer_oss 17024 4 snd_pcm_oss
sg 30304 0
bsd_comp 5376 0
ipt_LOG 6528 3
iptable_filter 2304 1
ip_tables 20544 2 ipt_LOG,iptable_filter
ppp_synctty 7744 0
ppp_async 8896 1
crc_ccitt 1728 1 ppp_async
ppp_generic 25172 7 bsd_comp,ppp_synctty,ppp_async
slhc 6208 1 ppp_generic
vmnet 28452 13
vmmon 166892 0
8250 21540 0
serial_core 19840 1 8250
lp 8964 0
parport 32712 1 lp
ipv6 245056 12
ehci_hcd 29128 0
usbhid 31968 0
usb_storage 30724 0
ohci_hcd 19332 0
usbcore 109116 5 ehci_hcd,usbhid,usb_storage,ohci_hcd
8139too 24064 0
mii 4544 1 8139too
emu10k1_gp 2688 0
gameport 12232 2 emu10k1_gp
nvidia 3706504 12
tsdev 5824 0
evdev 7232 0
ntfs 197072 1
sd_mod 13584 0
ide_scsi 14852 0
scsi_mod 85608 4 sg,usb_storage,sd_mod,ide_scsi
snd_emu10k1_synth 6976 0
snd_emu10k1 116996 5 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_ac97_codec 81532 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_pcm 82632 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec
snd_page_alloc 7620 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_emux_synth 36480 1 snd_emu10k1_synth
snd_seq_virmidi 6208 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_rawmidi 21216 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_seq_virmidi
snd_seq_midi_event 6080 1 snd_seq_virmidi
snd_seq_midi_emul 6592 1 snd_emux_synth
snd_seq 51088 4 snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi_emul
snd_timer 22020 3 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 7180 5 snd_emu10k1_synth,snd_emu10k1,snd_emux_synth,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd_hwdep 7456 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_emux_synth
snd 48804 14 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_emux_synth,snd_seq_virmidi,snd_rawm idi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_hwdep
soundcore 7712 4 snd
snd_util_mem 3328 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_emux_synth
autofs4 17412 1
agpgart 29576 1 nvidia
bash-3.00#

I'm totally baffled. I've read lots of documentation and even gone into IRC, with no success.
Have you got any ideas?