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Originally posted by mahamkali
Hi,
I am a newbie and I am having Debain-sarge on my AMD athelon pc. I am trying to mount my USB flash drive but it seems to be not working.
When I ran sg_map it is saying "no devices found so stopping sg_map" and when I mount the drive using command "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sandisk" I am getting the message "mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device".
Can anyone please help me solve my problem.
thanks in advance,
siva
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Does the drive even get detected use
dmesg in a console window it should be at the bottom of the output in the screen if you plug it in after you boot. And try
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/sandisk to tell the system the file type and you may want to use -t dos and try sda5 just in case the drive is formatted as a extended partition type instead of a primary. You may also want to look at the output of
fdisk -l /dev/sda to see what partitions are on the drive this done as root.
