[wplug] USB files[ystem] FAT32

Logan lws118 at psu.edu
Mon Jul 18 21:35:47 EDT 2005


Ok, after using dd to write 0's to /dev/sda, I think I've completely removed 
ntfs. 
fdisk still says it's Fat32, but when I try to mount it (either with "auto" in 
fstab, or manually "mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 mount", or with ntfs) I get:

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

and checking dmesg...
 [<f8ae56f5>] hub_thread+0x35/0x110 [usbcore]
 [<c0119d30>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x60
 [<c0105fde>] ret_from_fork+0x6/0x14
 [<c0119d30>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x60
 [<f8ae56c0>] hub_thread+0x0/0x110 [usbcore]
 [<c0104291>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x14
Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
USB Mass Storage device found at 5
FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda1.

I just formatted it with cfdisk, so I would have thought it would set up 
whatever reserved sectors it needed.

Google turns up a couple people having this trouble with ntfs, but no 
solutions I could find :-(

Thanks,
-Logan


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