I cannot seem to mount my USB thumb drive in knoppix. I am new to linux and have tried to follow various threads on the boards.

I am running knoppix on a computer that has windows xp and suse 9.0 on a dual-boot hard drive.

when i use the terminal as root, I can see that it sees my usb drive and its number is 3.

when I try to mount it by:

mkdir /mnt/USB (this works ok)

mount -t vfat /dev/sda3 /mnt/USB



I get:


mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda3,
or too many mounted file systems


Help.......thanks in advance!

Newbie leaving M$

Certain it got /dev/sda3? what's the output of: dmesg

Cheers,

Finegan

finegan,

The output of dmesg is:

Linux version 2.4.24-xfs (root@Knoppix) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)) #1 SMP Mi Feb 4 01:03:50 CET 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000013ffff00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000013ffff00 - 0000000014000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
319MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 81919
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 77823 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
ACPI disabled because your bios is from 99 and too old
You can enable it with acpi=force
IBM machine detected. Enabling interrupts during APM calls.
Kernel command line: ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off hda=scsi hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi hde=scsi hdf=scsi hdg=scsi hdh=scsi vga=791 initrd=miniroot.gz nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz
ide_setup: hda=scsi
ide_setup: hdb=scsi
ide_setup: hdc=scsi
ide_setup: hdd=scsi
ide_setup: hde=scsi
ide_setup: hdf=scsi
ide_setup: hdg=scsi
ide_setup: hdh=scsi
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 448.062 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 894.56 BogoMIPS
Memory: 320492k/327676k available (1278k kernel code, 6796k reserved, 547k data, 136k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 1461.18 usecs.
SMP motherboard not detected.
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 448.0516 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 99.5668 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 995668, slice: 497834
CPU0<T0:995664,T1:497824,D:6,S:497834,C:995668>
Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0)
All processors have done init_idle
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd85c, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/7110] at 00:02.0
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: Card 'Crystal Audio'
isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf4000000, mapped to 0xd480d000, size 3072k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=1
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:5d5d
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 100000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:02.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfff0-0xfff7, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbMA
hda: IBM-DJNA-371350, ATA DISK drive
hdb: CRD-8400B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 26520480 sectors (13578 MB) w/1966KiB Cache, CHS=1650/255/63
ide-cd: passing drive hdb to ide-scsi emulation.
hdb: attached ide-scsi driver.
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 >
ide: late registration of driver.
Promise Fasttrak(tm) Softwareraid driver 0.03beta: No raid array found
Highpoint HPT370 Softwareraid driver for linux version 0.02
Guestimating sector 26519455 for superblock
driver for Silicon Image(tm) Medley(tm) hardware version 0.0.1: No raid array found
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: LG Model: CD-ROM CRD-8400B Rev: 1.06
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 478k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
NCR53c406a: no available ports found
aec671x_detect:
scsi: <fdomain> Detection failed (no card)
GDT: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 2.05
GDT: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
megaraid: v1.18k (Release Date: Thu Aug 28 10:05:11 EDT 2003)
megaraid: no BIOS enabled.
DC390: 0 adapters found
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k nls_iso8859-1, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k nls_iso8859-1, errno = 2
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
cloop: Initializing cloop v2.01
cloop: loaded (max 8 devices)
cloop: /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX: 29897 blocks, 65536 bytes/block, largest block is 65562 bytes.
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
apm: BIOS not found.
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
Intel ISA PCIC probe: not found.
Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA probe: not found.
unloading Kernel Card Services
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 01:17:44 Feb 4 2004
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 15 for device 00:02.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 15 with 00:03.0
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xff00, IRQ 15
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usbdevfs: remount parameter error
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
parport0: PC-style at 0x3bc [PCSPP]
parport0: Printer, Hewlett-Packard OfficeJet Series 600
eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html
eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <saw@saw.sw.com.sg> and others
PCI: Found IRQ 15 for device 00:03.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 15 with 00:02.2
eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:06:29:62:49:CB, IRQ 15.
Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around.
Board assembly 000001-000, Physical connectors present: RJ45
Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
General self-test: passed.
Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
Internal registers self-test: passed.
ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x24c9f043).
Receiver lock-up workaround activated.
ad1848/cs4248 codec driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
ad1848: WSS/SB detected
ad1848: ISAPnP reports 'WSS/SB' at i/o 0x534, irq 5, dma 1, 3
cs4232: set synthio and synthirq to use the wavefront facilities.
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 262M
agpgart: Detected Intel 440BX chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xec000000
FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature.
Found signature1 0x4e0005 signature2 0xc00b6600 sector=1.
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:01.
FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature.
Found signature1 0x4e0005 signature2 0xc00b6600 sector=1.
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:01.
NTFS driver v1.1.22 [Flags: R/W MODULE]
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev ide0(3,3).
VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev ide0(3,3).
Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal
reiserfs: checking transaction log (device ide0(3,3)) ...
for (ide0(3,3))
ide0(3,3):Using r5 hash to sort names
Adding Swap: 650592k swap-space (priority -1)
apm: BIOS not found.

There's nothing there according to that one, which is no good... is usb-storage loaded?

Also, might want to try rescanning the scsi bus, this always helps for me with recalcitrant devices, the iPod guys came up with it:

http://www.clockwatching.net/~fin/ra...an-scsi-bus.sh

Cheers,

Finegan

Finegan,

Again, thank you for your assistance.

I am a major newbie to linux, so I am learning as I go.

I do not know how to handle the link you provided (http://www.clockwatching.net/~fin/ra...an-scsi-bus.sh)

When I clicked on the link I could save or open it....I did not know what program to choose to open the file/link

and I am not sure how to tell if usb-storage is loaded.

Sorry for being so elementry.

Right click on the link and save it... somewhere, open a Konsole or Xterm or something and run it, as root, with:

./rescan-scsi-bus.sh

To make certain usb-storage is loaded, check the loaded modules with:

/sbin/lsmod

And if its not there:

/sbin/modprobe usb-storage

Then check "dmesg" again to see if there's more stuff in there.

Cheers,

Finegan

I couldn'r run ./rescan-scsi-bus.sh even as root. It said permission denied.

Please see below for the entire output of the ./rescan command and the others you inquired about in your last post:

knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]$ su
root@ttyp0[knoppix]# ./rescan-scsi-bus.sh
bash: ./rescan-scsi-bus.sh: No such file or directory
root@ttyp0[knoppix]#
root@ttyp0[knoppix]# cd /home/knoppix
root@ttyp0[knoppix]# ./rescan-scsi-bus.sh
bash: ./rescan-scsi-bus.sh: Permission denied
root@ttyp0[knoppix]#
root@ttyp0[knoppix]# cd /home/knoppix
root@ttyp0[knoppix]# ./rescan-scsi-bus.sh
bash: ./rescan-scsi-bus.sh: Permission denied
root@ttyp0[knoppix]# /sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
autofs4 8756 1 (autoclean)
af_packet 13512 0 (autoclean)
reiserfs 169648 0 (autoclean)
ext3 64164 0 (autoclean)
jbd 46356 0 (autoclean) [ext3]
nls_iso8859-1 2876 0 (autoclean)
ntfs 50944 0 (autoclean)
msdos 4652 0 (autoclean)
agpgart 42628 0 (unused)
cs4232 3652 0
ad1848 20812 0 [cs4232]
uart401 6052 0 [cs4232]
sound 55276 0 [cs4232 ad1848 uart401]
soundcore 3428 4 [sound]
eepro100 19380 1
mii 2256 0 [eepro100]
serial 51972 0 (autoclean)
usb-uhci 21868 0 (unused)
usbcore 57824 1 [usb-uhci]
rtc 6972 0 (autoclean)
cloop 8740 2
root@ttyp0[knoppix]# /sbin/modprobe usb-storage
root@ttyp0[knoppix]# dmesg
Linux version 2.4.24-xfs (root@Knoppix) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prer
elease)) #1 SMP Mi Feb 4 01:03:50 CET 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000013ffff00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000013ffff00 - 0000000014000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
319MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 81919
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 77823 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
ACPI disabled because your bios is from 99 and too old
You can enable it with acpi=force
IBM machine detected. Enabling interrupts during APM calls.
Kernel command line: ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off hda
=scsi hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi hde=scsi hdf=scsi hdg=scsi hdh=scsi vga=791 init
rd=miniroot.gz nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz
ide_setup: hda=scsi
ide_setup: hdb=scsi
ide_setup: hdc=scsi
ide_setup: hdd=scsi
ide_setup: hde=scsi
ide_setup: hdf=scsi
ide_setup: hdg=scsi
ide_setup: hdh=scsi
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 448.062 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 894.56 BogoMIPS
Memory: 320492k/327676k available (1278k kernel code, 6796k reserved, 547k data,
136k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 1461.18 usecs.
SMP motherboard not detected.
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 448.0516 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 99.5668 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 995668, slice: 497834
CPU0<T0:995664,T1:497824,D:6,S:497834,C:995668>
Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0)
All processors have done init_idle
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd85c, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/7110] at 00:02.0
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: Card 'Crystal Audio'
isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf4000000, mapped to 0xd480d000, size 3072k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=1
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:5d5d
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 100000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:02.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xfff0-0xfff7, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbMA
hda: IBM-DJNA-371350, ATA DISK drive
hdb: CRD-8400B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 26520480 sectors (13578 MB) w/1966KiB Cache, CHS=1650/255/63
ide-cd: passing drive hdb to ide-scsi emulation.
hdb: attached ide-scsi driver.
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 >
ide: late registration of driver.
Promise Fasttrak(tm) Softwareraid driver 0.03beta: No raid array found
Highpoint HPT370 Softwareraid driver for linux version 0.02
Guestimating sector 26519455 for superblock
driver for Silicon Image(tm) Medley(tm) hardware version 0.0.1: No raid array fou
nd
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: LG Model: CD-ROM CRD-8400B Rev: 1.06
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 478k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
NCR53c406a: no available ports found
aec671x_detect:
scsi: <fdomain> Detection failed (no card)
GDT: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 2.05
GDT: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
megaraid: v1.18k (Release Date: Thu Aug 28 10:05:11 EDT 2003)
megaraid: no BIOS enabled.
DC390: 0 adapters found
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k nls_iso8859-1, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k nls_iso8859-1, errno = 2
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
cloop: Initializing cloop v2.01
cloop: loaded (max 8 devices)
cloop: /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX: 29897 blocks, 65536 bytes/block, largest block is
65562 bytes.
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
apm: BIOS not found.
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
Intel ISA PCIC probe: not found.
Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA probe: not found.
unloading Kernel Card Services
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 01:17:44 Feb 4 2004
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 15 for device 00:02.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 15 with 00:03.0
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xff00, IRQ 15
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usbdevfs: remount parameter error
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISA
PNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
parport0: PC-style at 0x3bc [PCSPP]
parport0: Printer, Hewlett-Packard OfficeJet Series 600
eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.h
tml
eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <saw@saw
.sw.com.sg> and others
PCI: Found IRQ 15 for device 00:03.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 15 with 00:02.2
eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:06:29:62:49:CB, IRQ 15.
Receiver lock-up bug exists -- enabling work-around.
Board assembly 000001-000, Physical connectors present: RJ45
Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
General self-test: passed.
Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
Internal registers self-test: passed.
ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x24c9f043).
Receiver lock-up workaround activated.
ad1848/cs4248 codec driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
ad1848: WSS/SB detected
ad1848: ISAPnP reports 'WSS/SB' at i/o 0x534, irq 5, dma 1, 3
cs4232: set synthio and synthirq to use the wavefront facilities.
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 262M
agpgart: Detected Intel 440BX chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xec000000
FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature.
Found signature1 0x4e0005 signature2 0xc00b6600 sector=1.
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:01.
FAT: Did not find valid FSINFO signature.
Found signature1 0x4e0005 signature2 0xc00b6600 sector=1.
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:01.
NTFS driver v1.1.22 [Flags: R/W MODULE]
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev ide0(3,3).
VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev ide0(3,3).
Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
reiserfs: found format "3.6" with standard journal
reiserfs: checking transaction log (device ide0(3,3)) ...
for (ide0(3,3))
ide0(3,3):Using r5 hash to sort names
Adding Swap: 650592k swap-space (priority -1)
apm: BIOS not found.
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.

Follow these steps, it works with Morphix:

1) don't post in more than one forum!
2) as root, run modprobe usb-storage
3) insert the key
4) mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb (or whatever mountpoint you choose)
5) before extracting umount /mnt/usb

here is the output....i followed your suggestions:

knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]$ su
root@ttyp0[knoppix]# modprobe usb-storage
root@ttyp0[knoppix]# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
mount: mount point /mnt/usb does not exist
root@ttyp0[knoppix]# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
mount: mount point /mnt/usb does not exist
root@ttyp0[knoppix]# mkdir /mnt/usb
root@ttyp0[knoppix]# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
root@ttyp0[knoppix]# mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
root@ttyp0[knoppix]# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
or too many mounted file systems
root@ttyp0[knoppix]#

I just noticed you have scsi disks (or at list so you instruct the kernel), so the usb key may have higher scsi number. Try the "mount /dev/sdX1 /mnt/usb" with X going from 'a' to 'i'. I have no other ideas