Can't mount USB FLASH (Pen driver)

vador · 10-09-2004, 05:41 AM

HI all,

I am using slackware 10-current

i have just compiled my kernel and everything is working fine except i can't mount my 128mb usb pen in linux!!!

It gives me this error:

root@MixStation:/etc/rc.d# mount /dev/sda1 -t vfat /mnt/flash
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
or too many mounted file system

I choose in kernel the scsi modules and the vfat modules did i forget something in the kernel?

Anyone can say what i need to do that .

Cya

acid_kewpie · 10-09-2004, 05:48 AM

remove the pen. run "dmesg -c". plugin the pen, run "dmesg".

the second dmesg should just contain what the usb subsystem makes of the device including filesystem recognition and assignments to /dev/entries and such.

vador · 10-09-2004, 06:11 AM

Ok I did that but I can't find here is attached I try sda0 to sda4 only the sda1 gives me that erro the others say that does not existe such device

Here is the output of my Dmesg: http://clientes.netvisao.pt/~carl0047/file

What is wrong here?

Thanks for help

tredegar · 10-09-2004, 08:19 AM

Your mount command doesn't look right. Please try

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash

vador · 10-09-2004, 09:28 AM

Same thing happening

root@MixStation:/home/vador# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
or too many mounted file systems

Andrew Benton · 10-09-2004, 01:49 PM

My guess is that the problem is in the kernel. You've either not compiled something you need when you compiled your kernel or you've compiled something as a module and you need to insert the module into the kernel before you can mount the usb. From your dmesg,

Unable to load NLS charset iso8859-1
FAT: IO charset iso8859-1 not found

looks suspicious. There's an option for that on the native language submenu of the file systems section of make menuconfig