Mounting a USB Flash Drive

Garibaldi3489 · 01-04-2005, 08:52 PM

I've tried reading all over the internet about how to mount my Lexar 512 MB USB Flash drive, but I still cannot get it to work. I tried dmesg with it in and here is the output:

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dmesg
Linux version 2.4.26 (root@darkstar) (gcc version 3.3.3) #6 Mon Jun 21 17:54:29CEST 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001bfd0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001bfd0000 - 000000001bfdf000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001bfdf000 - 000000001c000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ff7c0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
447MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 114640
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 110544 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/topologilinux/kernel/bare.i/bzImage initrd=/topologilinux/files/initrd.gz vga=773 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc rw
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 2191.234 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 4364.69 BogoMIPS
Memory: 447132k/458560k available (1908k kernel code, 11040k reserved, 638k data, 120k 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: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ stepping 00
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0031, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router default [10de/0060] at 00:01.0
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
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
NTFS driver 2.1.6b [Flags: R/W].
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xec000000, mapped to 0xdc80d000, size 1536k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x8, linelength=1024, pages=3
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:d710
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 7777K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
NFORCE2: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:09.0
NFORCE2: chipset revision 162
NFORCE2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
NFORCE2: BIOS didn't set cable bits correctly. Enabling workaround.
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
NFORCE2: 00:09.0 (rev a2) UDMA133 controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda

MA, hdb

io
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc

MA, hdd

MA
hda: SAMSUNG SP1604N, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03c9860, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: RICOH DVD+RW MP5240A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-148A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 312581808 sectors (160042 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(133)
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdd: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
md: linear personality registered as nr 1
md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
raid5: measuring checksumming speed
8regs : 3141.600 MB/sec
32regs : 2094.000 MB/sec
pIII_sse : 1882.400 MB/sec
pII_mmx : 5129.600 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 6553.200 MB/sec
raid5: using function: pIII_sse (1882.400 MB/sec)
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
LVM version 1.0.8(17/11/2003)
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 3138k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Freeing unused kernel memory: 120k freed
NTFS-fs error (device 03:01): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sector is invalid.
NTFS-fs error (device 03:01): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Mount option errors=recover not used. Aborting without trying to recover.
NTFS-fs error (device 03:01): ntfs_read_super(): Not an NTFS volume.
NTFS volume version 3.1.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on loop(7,7), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Adding Swap: 1023992k swap-space (priority -1)
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on loop(7,7), internal journal
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 380M
agpgart: Detected NVIDIA nForce2 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf4000000
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Intel ISA PCIC probe: not found.
Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA probe: not found.
ds: no socket drivers loaded!
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-6629 Wed Nov 3 13:12:51 PST 2004
ohci1394: $Rev: 1045 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:0d.0 to 64
ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[11] MMIO=[fe500000-fe5007ff] Max Packet=[2048]
ohci1394_0: SelfID received outside of bus reset sequence
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:06.0 to 64
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0064b2c200e01800]
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49785 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 47477
forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.25.
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:04.0 to 64
eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 01043:80a7 bound to 00:04.0
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
PCI: Guessed IRQ 5 for device 00:02.2
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:02.2 to 64
ehci_hcd 00:02.2: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller
ehci_hcd 00:02.2: irq 5, pci mem dce30000
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
PCI: cache line size of 64 is not supported by device 00:02.2
ehci_hcd 00:02.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-Dec-29/2.4
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 6 ports detected
PCI: Guessed IRQ 5 for device 00:02.1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:02.1 to 64
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xdce38000, IRQ 5
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.1, nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (#2)
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 3 ports detected
PCI: Guessed IRQ 5 for device 00:02.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:02.0 to 64
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xdce3a000, IRQ 5
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.0, nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 3 ports detected
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.2-1, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x59b/0x51) is not claimed by any active driver.
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.2-6, assigned address 3
usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=3 (error=-71)
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.2-6, assigned address 4
usb.c: USB device 4 (vend/prod 0x5dc/0xa410) is not claimed by any active driver.
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-3, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x58f/0x9360) is not claimed by any active driver.
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 17:55:05 Jun 13 2004
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: Generic Model: USB SD Reader Rev: 1.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sda: Unit Not Ready, sense:
Info fld=0x0, Current 00:00: sns = f0 2
ASC=3a ASCQ= 0
Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x3a0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
Info fld=0x0, Current sd00:00: sns = f0 2
ASC=3a ASCQ= 0
Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x3a0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
unable to read partition table
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: IOMEGA Model: CDRW55292EXT3-B Rev: SOP4
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi-1 drive
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: LEXAR Model: JUMPDRIVE SPORT Rev: 1000
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sdb: 1014784 512-byte hdwr sectors (520 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: sdb1
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 4
USB Mass Storage support registered.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
sda: Unit Not Ready, sense:
Info fld=0x0, Current 00:00: sns = f0 2
ASC=3a ASCQ= 0
Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x3a0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
Info fld=0x0, Current sd00:00: sns = f0 2
ASC=3a ASCQ= 0
Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x3a0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
unable to read partition table
sda: Unit Not Ready, sense:
Info fld=0x0, Current 00:00: sns = f0 2
ASC=3a ASCQ= 0
Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x3a0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
Info fld=0x0, Current sd00:00: sns = f0 2
ASC=3a ASCQ= 0
Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x3a0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
unable to read partition table
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:02.2-6 address 4
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.2-6, assigned address 5
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 5

from that it looks like the usb flash drive is /dev/sda -- correct me if I'm wrong.
I then created a mount-point, mkdir /mnt/usb/ and mounting it

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mount /dev/sda /mnt/usb/
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

so I tried

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mount -vt vfat /dev/sda /mnt/usb/
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

and then I tried dmesg | tail, which gave me this:

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dmesg | tail
sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
Info fld=0x0, Current sd00:00: sns = f0 2
ASC=3a ASCQ= 0
Raw sense data:0xf0 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x3a0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
unable to read partition table

which correctly shows my "512" flash drive. I then tried adding a line to fstab and rebooting, with no luck, I the tried a little variation on the line, also unsuccessful. Here is the line I tried:

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/dev/sda /mnt/usb vfat users,defaults,noauto 0 0

but I couldn't get it to mount. Any ideas?

Ninja Cow · 01-04-2005, 09:00 PM

The partition is probably on sda1. Mine, for example, is setup like this:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/fat vfat users,defaults,noauto 0 0

As root, use fdisk -l. This will show all of your partitions.

ringwraith · 01-04-2005, 09:01 PM

do you get an error message?

Garibaldi3489 · 01-04-2005, 09:09 PM

Thanks for
my fdisk -l

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fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sdb: 519 MB, 519569408 bytes
129 heads, 32 sectors/track, 245 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4128 * 512 = 2113536 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 246 507376 4 FAT16 <32M
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(249, 128, 32) logical=(245, 106, 32)

Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20673 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 619 4679608+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 * 620 20672 151600680 7 HPFS/NTFS

I played with it for a minute and got it! My fstab line is this:
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb vfat users,defaults,noauto 0 0
Thanks for your help!