[TriLUG] can't mount usb smartmedia card

[David A. Cafaro]

When you plug the reader in are you plugging it in with the media all
ready in it?  Also wouldn't you need to be mounting an individual usb
device such as /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda4.  I know my usb camera shows up at
/dev/sda1 and my usb zip drive at /dev/sda4.  I couldn't figure out from
your messages log which device it might be under.  If you have cdrecord
installed you might try typing "cdrecord -scanbus" to see if it shows up
on the virtual scsi bus.

-David

On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 01:00, Jason Tower wrote:
> just got a non-usb digital camera off ebay, came with a generic usb
> smartmedia reader.  i've plugged it in to two different linux systems and
> get the same result: it appears to be recognized, the kernel usb modules
> are there, but i can't mount it:
> 
> [root at holly root]# mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/usbreader/
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
>        or too many mounted file systems
> 
> [root at holly root]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
> Attached devices:
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: General  Model: Flash Disk Drive Rev: 2.05
>   Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> 
> a look at /var/log/messages yields this:
> 
> Oct 13 00:45:29 holly kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> Oct 13 00:45:29 holly kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
> Oct 13 00:45:29 holly kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage
> devices
> Oct 13 00:45:29 holly kernel:   Vendor: General   Model: Flash Disk Drive 
> Rev: 2.05
> Oct 13 00:45:29 holly kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access                     
> ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Oct 13 00:45:29 holly kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
> Oct 13 00:47:12 holly kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0,
> channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> Oct 13 00:47:12 holly kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
> Oct 13 00:47:12 holly kernel: sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0,
> driver = 08
> Oct 13 00:47:12 holly kernel: Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready
> Oct 13 00:47:12 holly kernel: Additional sense indicates Medium not present
> Oct 13 00:47:12 holly kernel: sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes,
> disk size 1GB.
> Oct 13 00:47:12 holly kernel:  sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
> Oct 13 00:47:12 holly kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
> Oct 13 00:47:12 holly kernel:  unable to read partition table
> Oct 13 00:47:12 holly kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
> Oct 13 00:47:12 holly kernel: sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0,
> driver = 08
> Oct 13 00:47:12 holly kernel: Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready
> Oct 13 00:47:12 holly kernel: Additional sense indicates Medium not present
> Oct 13 00:47:12 holly kernel: sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes,
> disk size 1GB.
> Oct 13 00:47:12 holly kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
> Oct 13 00:47:12 holly kernel:  sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
> Oct 13 00:47:12 holly kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
> Oct 13 00:47:12 holly kernel:  unable to read partition table
> Oct 13 00:47:12 holly kernel: Device not ready.  Make sure there is a disc
> in the drive.
> Oct 13 00:47:12 holly kernel: Device busy for revalidation (usage=1)
> Oct 13 00:47:12 holly kernel: Device 08:00 not ready.
> Oct 13 00:47:12 holly kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
> Oct 13 00:47:12 holly kernel: FAT: unable to read boot sector
> Oct 13 00:47:12 holly kernel: Device not ready.  Make sure there is a disc
> in the drive.
> 
> i think i'm looking at a bad device (same results with two different
> cards, both work fine in the camera) but wanted a second opinion before i
> shell out more $$$ for a new one.  also, when i plug it into a win2k box,
> i get similar results, recognizes the device as removable media but
> insists that no media is present.
> 
> any thoughts y'all?
> 
> ------------------------
> Jason Tower
> Cerient Technologies
> jason at cerient.net
> 
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