Problems mounting USB thumb drive

[Joey Alfaro]

Nitebirdz wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 
> I have a 512MB USB thumb drive that works fine at home under 5.10 but
> fails to mount on my system at work running 5.04.  The drive is
> correctly detected by the kernel when I plug it in:
> 
>   Jan  5 08:38:47 lisbon kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using
>     address 2
>   Jan  5 08:38:48 lisbon kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using
>     address 3
>   Jan  5 08:38:50 lisbon kernel: SCSI subsystem initialized
>   Jan  5 08:38:50 lisbon kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
>   Jan  5 08:38:50 lisbon kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass
>     Storage devices
>   Jan  5 08:38:50 lisbon kernel:   Vendor: Memorex   Model: TD Classic
>     003C   Rev: 1.04
>   Jan  5 08:38:50 lisbon kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access
>     ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>   Jan  5 08:38:50 lisbon kernel: usbcore: registered new driver
>     usb-storage
>   Jan  5 08:38:50 lisbon kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
>   Jan  5 08:38:51 lisbon usb.agent[1009]:      usb-storage: loaded
>     successfully
>   Jan  5 08:38:53 lisbon kernel: SCSI device sda: 1003520 512-byte hdwr
>     sectors (514 MB)
>   Jan  5 08:38:53 lisbon kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
>   Jan  5 08:38:53 lisbon scsi.agent[1070]:      sd_mod: loaded sucessfully
>   Jan  5 08:38:53 lisbon kernel:  /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0:
>     [CUMANA/ADFS] p1<5>Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel
>     [0,
>     id 0, lun 0
> 
> 
> However, any attempt to mount it will fail:
> 
>   # mount -t vfat /dev/sda /media/TRAVELDRIVE mount: wrong
>   fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
>        missing codepage or other error
>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>        dmesg | tail  or so
> 
>   # mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/TRAVELDRIVE 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
> 
> I get the same problem if I try to mount it as an "msdos" type
> filesystem.  Yet, 'parted' does manage to access the drive just fine
> (although with some bug messages):
> 
>   # parted -s /dev/sda print
>   You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to
>   bug-parted at gnu.org containing the version (1.6.20), and the following
>   message:
>   Assertion ((C * heads + H) * sectors + S == A) at
>   ../../libparted/disk_dos.c:578 in function probe_partition_for_geom()
>   failed. You found a bug in GNU Parted.  Please email a bug report to
>   bug-parted at gnu.org containing the version (1.6.20), and the following
>   message:
>   Assertion ((C * heads + H) * sectors + S == A) at
>   ../../libparted/disk_dos.c:578 in function probe_partition_for_geom()
>   failed.
>   Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-490.000 megabytes Disk label type:
>   msdos
>   Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
>   1          0.016    490.000  primary   fat16       boot, lba
> 
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> ----------------
> Nitebirdz
> http://www.sacredchaos.com/


have you tried fat instead of vfat