[ale] mounting an SD card

[Jim Philips]

On Wednesday 28 June 2006 11:59, Jim wrote:
> JK wrote:
> > Jim Philips wrote:
> >> I'm trying to mount an SD card I bought for a new camera. I find my card
> >> reader in dmesg, like so:
> >>
> >> usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
> >>  Vendor: Generic   Model: USB SD Reader     Rev: 1.00
> >>  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
> >> sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
> >>
> >> But if I try to mount it, I get:
> >>
> >> bash-3.1# mount /dev/sda -t vfat /mnt/sd
> >
> > Try
> >
> > bash-3.1# mount /dev/sda1 -t vfat /mnt/sd
> >
> > You need to tell it which partition to mount. Usually the first partition
> > on an  SD card is the data one, but you can "fdisk /dev/sda" and issue
> > the "p" command to see them all.

>
> fdisk -l /dev/sda
> Will list the partions in batch mode.
>
> Jim.

Well, I get a clear enough result from that:

Disk /dev/sda: 512 MB, 512229376 bytes
9 heads, 8 sectors/track, 13895 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 72 * 512 = 36864 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               4       13896      500107+   6  FAT16

But it still doesn't mount:

bash-3.1# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/sd
mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist
bash-3.1# mount -t msdos /dev/sda1 /mnt/sd
mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist

So, fdisk thinks it exists, but mount doesn't?