Re: [gentoo-user] Re: usb external drive

[Albert Hopkins <marduk@gentoo.org>]

On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 14:37 +0000, James wrote:
> Well I hate to be the only one answering my posts....
> 
> I think I found the problem. Linux does not think a (v)FAT
> file system is on the drive. From dmesg I get this:
> 
> Late last I night I got this response to a manual attempt to
> mount the drive:
> 
> mount -t vfat /dev/sdb /mnt/usbdrive
> 
Based on your dmesg output, shouldn't you be mounting /dev/sdb1 (as
opposed to /dev/sdb)?

>  # dmesg | tail
> sdb: Mode Sense: 1c 00 00 00
> sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
>  sdb: sdb1
> sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb
> sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
> usb-storage: device scan complete
> FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
> VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb.
> FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
> VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb.
> 


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