[ale] Not valid block device error
Dow Hurst
dhurst at kennesaw.edu
Tue Feb 24 17:32:26 EST 2004
It normally is vfat so Win based utilities will still work
or cameras, whatever. Try mounting it as vfat.
Dow
Chris Fowler wrote:
> I do not think the stick is formated as iso9660
>
> try fdisk /dev/sdc
>
> What do you get?
>
> On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 16:34, Sunmeet Saluja wrote:
>
>>I'm currently running RH7.3 2.4.20-28 kernel, and when I try to mount a
>>USB Memory Stick, I get the following error:
>>
>>[root at tazenda sunny]# mount /mnt/usbstick/
>>mount: /dev/sdc1 is not a valid block device
>>
>>/etc/fstab on my machine looks like:
>>
>>[root at tazenda sunny]# cat /etc/fstab
>>LABEL / ext3 defaults 1 1
>>none /dev/pts devpts gid=4,mode=620 0 0
>>none /proc proc defaults 0 0
>>none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
>>/dev/sdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
>>/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
>>/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
>>/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
>>/dev/sdc1 /mnt/usbstick auto noauto,user 0 0
>>
>>
>>I've even tried changing that last line in fstab to:
>>/dev/sdc1 /mnt/usbstick iso9660 udf,noauto,user 0 0
>>
>>But no help.
>>
>>Here's what gets logged when plugging in the USB Memory stick:
>>
>>[root at tazenda sunny]# tail /var/adm/messages
>>Feb 24 16:28:24 tazenda kernel: I/O error: dev 08:20, sector 0
>>Feb 24 16:28:24 tazenda kernel: unable to read partition table
>>Feb 24 16:28:24 tazenda kernel: sdc : READ CAPACITY failed.
>>Feb 24 16:28:24 tazenda kernel: sdc : status = 1, message = 00, host =
>>0, driver = 08
>>Feb 24 16:28:24 tazenda kernel: Info fld=0xa00 (nonstd), Current
>>sd00:00: sense key Not Ready
>>Feb 24 16:28:24 tazenda kernel: sdc : block size assumed to be 512
>>bytes, disk size 1GB.
>>Feb 24 16:28:24 tazenda kernel: sdc: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
>>Feb 24 16:28:24 tazenda kernel: sdc: I/O error: dev 08:20, sector 0
>>Feb 24 16:28:24 tazenda kernel: I/O error: dev 08:20, sector 0
>>Feb 24 16:28:24 tazenda kernel: unable to read partition table
>>
>>
>>What should I do to mount this USB Memory Stick???
>>
>>Thanks for all the help.
>>
>>~Sunny
>>
>
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