Subj : Re: USB CS mass storage device...
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Dubravko Gorupic
Date : Thu Sep 09 2004 04:30 pm

Brian wrote:

> Dubravko Gorupic wrote:
>> Brian wrote:
>>> The USB mass storage device shows up but will not mount.
>  
>>> Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 1
>>> SCSI device sdb: 499712 512-byte hdwr sectors (256 MB)
>>> sdb: Write Protect is off
>>> Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 1
>>> SCSI device sdb: 499712 512-byte hdwr sectors (256 MB)
>>> sdb: Write Protect is off
> 
>>> mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt
> 
>> Well, I had some usb sticks that could be only mounted from i.e. /dev/sdb
>> device, but not /dev/sdb1. dmesg showed me that this stick had more then
>> one partition, so I tried with /dev/sdb and it workd fine.
> 
> Thanks - have tried that, no joy!
> 
> I have all the appropriate filesystems compiled in (msdos & vfat), I have
> all the scsi components built in (disk, generic, multiple LUNs) and have a
> working USB subsystem (finds and identifies SD memory card).
> 
> What am I missing?
> 

Sorry, don't know the solution, but I think that you should start with part
of dmesg "unknown partition table". There should be something like "sdb:
sdb1".

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