mp3 digital player

[coolclassic]

I am trying to mount a generic mp3 player but i am having the following problem.

(mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified)

I have tried the following: mount /dev/sda1 and mount vfat /dev/sda1 this gives the following error:

(mount: special device vfat does not exist)

I enclose fstab entry:

(/dev/sda1 /media/sda1 auto sync,noauto,user,exec 0 0 #HOTPLUG 4t_9.ynf5_IQdZ+9)

[ph34r]

What does

fdisk -l /dev/sda


report?

Also, your mount should be something like

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /place/to/mount/it


You are missing the -t option

[coolclassic]

here is fdisk -l /dev/sda:

Disk /dev/sda: 125 MB, 125682176 bytes
4 heads, 60 sectors/track, 1022 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 240 * 512 = 122880 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 ? 7790715 8493588 84344761 69 Unknown
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(68, 13, 10) logical=(7790714, 0, 6)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(288, 115, 43) logical=(8493587, 0, 7)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 ? 7089665 14880838 934940732+ 73 Unknown
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(371, 114, 37) logical=(7089664, 2, 2)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(366, 32, 33) logical=(14880837, 1, 6)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3 ? 11 11 0 74 Unknown
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(371, 114, 37) logical=(10, 2, 54)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(372, 97, 50) logical=(10, 2, 53)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda4 1 14312973 1717556736 0 Empty
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(0, 0, 0) logical=(0, 0, 1)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(0, 0, 0) logical=(14312972, 3, 12)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.


Tried:mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/sda1
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, or too many mounted file systems

[psych-major]

Originally posted by coolclassic
I have tried the following: mount /dev/sda1 and mount vfat /dev/sda1 this gives the following error:

(mount: special device vfat does not exist)


Here's How I mount mine:

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


This assumes, of course, that there is a folder already created called /mnt/usb.

My fstab has this entry:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb vfat noauto,users,rw 1 1


I then created a hard disk device icon on the desktop and pointed it to /mnt/usb. I can mount/unmount it from there by right-clicking on the icon.