[ale] Not valid block device error

[Sunmeet Saluja]

fdisk /dev/sdc1 yeilds:

[root at tazenda sunny]# /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdc1

Unable to open /dev/sdc1

fdisk /dev/sdc yeilds:

[root at tazenda sunny]# /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdc

Unable to read /dev/sdc


Chris Fowler wrote:
> I do not think the stick is formated as iso9660
> 
> try fdisk /dev/sdc 
> 
> What do you get?
> 
> On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 16:34, Sunmeet Saluja wrote:
> 
>>I'm currently running RH7.3 2.4.20-28 kernel, and when I try to mount a 
>>USB Memory Stick, I get the following error:
>>
>>[root at tazenda sunny]# mount /mnt/usbstick/
>>mount: /dev/sdc1 is not a valid block device
>>
>>/etc/fstab on my machine looks like:
>>
>>[root at tazenda sunny]# cat /etc/fstab
>>LABEL           /                  ext3    defaults        1 1
>>none            /dev/pts           devpts  gid=4,mode=620  0 0
>>none            /proc              proc    defaults        0 0
>>none            /dev/shm           tmpfs   defaults        0 0
>>/dev/sdb2        swap              swap    defaults        0 0
>>/dev/cdrom      /mnt/cdrom         iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
>>/dev/cdrom1     /mnt/cdrom1        iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
>>/dev/fd0        /mnt/floppy        auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
>>/dev/sdc1       /mnt/usbstick      auto    noauto,user     0 0
>>
>>
>>I've even tried changing that last line in fstab to:
>>/dev/sdc1        /mnt/usbstick     iso9660 udf,noauto,user   0 0
>>
>>But no help.
>>
>>Here's what gets logged when plugging in the USB Memory stick:
>>
>>[root at tazenda sunny]# tail /var/adm/messages
>>Feb 24 16:28:24 tazenda kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:20, sector 0
>>Feb 24 16:28:24 tazenda kernel:  unable to read partition table
>>Feb 24 16:28:24 tazenda kernel: sdc : READ CAPACITY failed.
>>Feb 24 16:28:24 tazenda kernel: sdc : status = 1, message = 00, host = 
>>0, driver = 08
>>Feb 24 16:28:24 tazenda kernel: Info fld=0xa00 (nonstd), Current 
>>sd00:00: sense key Not Ready
>>Feb 24 16:28:24 tazenda kernel: sdc : block size assumed to be 512 
>>bytes, disk size 1GB.
>>Feb 24 16:28:24 tazenda kernel: sdc: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
>>Feb 24 16:28:24 tazenda kernel:  sdc: I/O error: dev 08:20, sector 0
>>Feb 24 16:28:24 tazenda kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:20, sector 0
>>Feb 24 16:28:24 tazenda kernel:  unable to read partition table
>>
>>
>>What should I do to mount this USB Memory Stick???
>>
>>Thanks for all the help.
>>
>>~Sunny
>>
> 
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