[SATLUG] usb card readers

[Thomas Cameron]

On Sat, 2004-11-13 at 20:17 -0600, Jim J wrote:
> I need some help trying to get a usb lexar card reader to work.  I'm 
> running a stock 10.0 slackware box.  Love that slackware.  Anyway the 
> card reader is recognized in lsusb, but I cannot mount it.  The logs are 
> giving me the following messages:
> 
> Current 00:00: sns = 70  2
> ASC=3a ASCQ= 0
> Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 
> 0x00 0x3a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
> sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
> sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
> Current sd00:00: sns = 70  2
> ASC=3a ASCQ= 0
> Raw sense data:0x70 0x00 0x02 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x0a 0x00 0x00 0x00 
> 0x00 0x3a 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00 0x00
> sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
> sda: Write Protect is off
>  sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
>  I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
>  unable to read partition table
> Device busy for revalidation (usage=1)
> Device 08:00 not ready.
>  I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
> FAT: unable to read boot sector
> 
> Mount is giving me the usual non-helpful error message of wrong file 
> system type, bad option, bad superblock etc.....
> 
> Any ideas?

What is the syntax of your mount command?

Should be something like:

mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

or maybe

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

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Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT