USB drives on Debian
I just purchased a brand new Verbatim USB drive. It holds 1 gigabyte of storage. I can't make it work, but I have used other USB drives on this computer, and the drive does work on Windows. I'm on Debian 3.1 Sarge. This is the error when I try to mount it:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so Please check that the disk is entered correctly. Here is the relevant line in /etc/fstab: /dev/sda1 /media/usb vfat rw,user,noauto 0 1 Here is "lsusb": Bus 004 Device 005: ID 08ec:0015 M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 004: ID 046d:c50e Logitech, Inc. MX-1000 Cordless Mouse Receiver Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Here is "dmesg | tail": Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 508378397 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 508378398 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 508378399 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 508378384 FAT: invalid media value (0xb9) VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda1. DMA write timed out parport0: FIFO is stuck parport0: BUSY timeout (1) in compat_write_block_pio DMA write timed out When I run "cfdisk /dev/sda1", the partition shows up as: sda1p1 Boot Primary W95 FAT16 (LBA) [+,-./012345] 899.90 Please help... |
The relevant dmesg lines say 'can't find a vfat filesystem, etc etc...". I looks like the usb part is ok.
First comment out the fstab line, and try to play with mount options in the command line, and see what you get: Code:
mount -t auto (try vfat as well here) -o users,defaults(lots of different options, read 'man mount') /dev/sda1 /media/usb cat /proc/mounts t see if you mounted the device. here's mine: Code:
frank:/home/bruno# cat /proc/mounts |
Ok I tried your suggestions, to no avail. When I try "auto" I get "you must specify the filesystem type" When I try "vfat" I get the same error as before:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so Do you use MSN? Maybe you could walk me through a few things, I'm short 200 Canadian dollars now and I'd _really_ appreciate more help :) |
I can icq or yahoo msg. Can you?
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I have ICQ as well, my number is 256266340. Thanks.
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