FlipmodePlaya
01-01-2005, 05:13 PM
I can't seem to mount FAT drives anymore, though I could in the past and still can on other boxes. I've noticed this with both a CF card reader and my portable music player, though the following shell stuff applies only to the latter (the same thing happens, why post both?).
dmesg after trying to mount using command "mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/Media/Neuros/" (Ive tried other mount command as well, to be safe).
FAT: bogus logical sector size 65535
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 08:01.
Error given when mounting as above:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
Response to "/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sda":
Disk /dev/sda: 8 MB, 8192000 bytes
1 heads, 16 sectors/track, 1000 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16 * 512 = 8192 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2 1000 7992 b W95 FAT32
Response to "fsck /dev/sda1"
fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
dosfsck 2.10, 22 Sep 2003, FAT32, LFN
Currently, only 1 or 2 FATs are supported, not 255.
Kernel modules usb-storage, fat, vfat, and hid are all loaded (do any others apply?).
Root partition is in Reiser, on a 250GB HDD.
What confuses me the most is that Windows under VMWare can read the drive perfectly from this computer, and that they used to mount just fine. Any suggestions?
Thanks for any replies.
dmesg after trying to mount using command "mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/Media/Neuros/" (Ive tried other mount command as well, to be safe).
FAT: bogus logical sector size 65535
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 08:01.
Error given when mounting as above:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
Response to "/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sda":
Disk /dev/sda: 8 MB, 8192000 bytes
1 heads, 16 sectors/track, 1000 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16 * 512 = 8192 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2 1000 7992 b W95 FAT32
Response to "fsck /dev/sda1"
fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
dosfsck 2.10, 22 Sep 2003, FAT32, LFN
Currently, only 1 or 2 FATs are supported, not 255.
Kernel modules usb-storage, fat, vfat, and hid are all loaded (do any others apply?).
Root partition is in Reiser, on a 250GB HDD.
What confuses me the most is that Windows under VMWare can read the drive perfectly from this computer, and that they used to mount just fine. Any suggestions?
Thanks for any replies.