[ale] mounting an SD card

[Tim Meanor]

What does fdisk -l /dev/sda tell you?  Maybe try mounting /dev/sda1  
instead of /dev/sda.

On Jun 27, 2006, at 9:15 PM, Jim Philips wrote:

> I'm trying to mount an SD card I bought for a new camera. I find my  
> card
> reader in dmesg, like so:
>
> usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
>   Vendor: Generic   Model: USB SD Reader     Rev: 1.00
>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
> sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
>
> But if I try to mount it, I get:
>
> bash-3.1# mount /dev/sda -t vfat /mnt/sd
> 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
>
> The tail from dmesg looks like this:
>
> sda: assuming drive cache: write through
> SCSI device sda: 1000448 512-byte hdwr sectors (512 MB)
> sda: Write Protect is off
> sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
> sda: assuming drive cache: write through
>  sda: sda1
> FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
> VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.
> FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
> VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.
>
> What's happening? What do I need to tell it?
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