USB drive and SD card mount failure.

[Samuel Thurston, III]

this solved my problem

http://linuxblog.pansapiens.com/2007/10/22/mounting-usb-key-in-ubuntu-
gutsy-710-the-usefree-error/

On Nov 11, 2007 8:34 PM, Samuel Thurston, III <sam.thurston at gmail.com> wrote:
> No luck. See below:
>
>
> On Nov 11, 2007 3:10 PM, Rapael Morcha <raphael.morcha at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 08:44:30AM -0600, Samuel Thurston, III wrote:
> > > Hiya,
> > >
> > > Since upgrading to 7.10, my USB drives and SD cards no longer automount.  On
> > > connect, i get the message:
> > >
> > > Cannot mount volume.
> > > Unable to mount the volume
> > > Details >>
> > > mount: wong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, missing
> > > codepage or helper progra, or other error.  In some cases useful info is
> > > found in syslog - try
> > > dmesg | tail or so
> > >
> > > So, dmesg says:
> > >
> > > [682445.710000] sdb: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
> > > [682445.710000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
> > > [682445.712000] SCSI device sdb: 1994385 512-byte hdwr sectors (1021 MB)
> > > [682445.713000] sdb: Write Protect is off
> > > [682445.713000] sdb: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
> > > [682445.713000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
> > > [682445.713000]  sdb: sdb1
> > > [682445.717000] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
> > > [682445.717000] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
> > > [682445.992000] FAT: Unrecognized mount option "usefree" or missing value
> > >
> > >
> > > What seems to be the problem here, and how do i remedy it?  I can manually
> >
> > Your sdb1 partition seems to be recognised.Make sure you have hal and gnome-volume-manager installed.
> >
> > raphael at f9:[~] sudo apt-get install hal gnome-volume-manager;
> >
>
> already had these installed
>
> >
> > Try mounting now. If even after installing them, it doesn't like to mount, delete the option marked (1) (i.e., "usefree") below from your /etc/fstab file.
> >
> > raphael at f9:[~] sudo gedit /etc/fstab
> > <<<now delete the option "usefree">>>
> > for e.g., "/dev/sdb7 /mnt/veryphat vfat (1)<<usefree>>,defaults 0 0"
>
> I don't have any entry like this.  all of my fstab entries are UUID=
> such and so forth.  do i need to add this? will it work as well for my
> SD slot if i do? if i have both connected i would think this would
> cause a problem.
>
>
> >
> > Try remounting mount;
> > raphael at f9:[~] sudo mount -a;
> >
> > --
> > Cheers,
> > Raphael.
> >
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