[wplug] memory stick - mount prob

[Coutch, Robert]

Maybe it's like a ZIP disk and uses an extended partition
and would mount on /dev/sda4.

See if you can read partition info using fdisk on the card.

-Bob



-----Original Message-----
From: R.E.Coutch [mailto:coutchre at usaor.net]
Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 2:57 AM
To: coutchre at tvratings.com
Subject: [wplug] memory stick - mount prob


Hi to everyone - merry Christmas!

I have a small problem with the memory sticks my camera uses. I just
bought a digital camera Sony DSC-P31, which has a 8MB memory stick by
default. I bought an extra 64MB stick for more storage space.

These can be read and written from a laptop or desktop just by connecting
the camera with the provided USB cable, and the stick gets mounted as a
vfat filesystem. This happened almost automatically with the 8MB stick.
All I had to do was type mount /mnt/camera and voila - /dev/sda1 qas
mounted at /mnt/camera, type vfat, everything fine.

But, when I tried the same with the 64MB stick, I got the standard mount
error message:

mount: wrong fs type, vad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1 or too many
mounted filesystems.

I tried all options of mount, but the same message
appeared after every failed effort in /var/log/messages:

kernel: FAT: bogus logical sector size 65535
kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 08:01

I tried creating a vfat filesystem on the stick from linux, and that made
the stick mountable, readable and writable by linux, but not by the
camera...

I tried 3 different (different brands too) 64MB sticks, and they all
behave the same. Does anyone have any ideas? I might have to return the
camera if I cannot hook it up to my laptop... Oh, and I tried Mac and
Windows machines and the sticks were mounting fine.

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

-A

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