[NTLUG:Discuss] how to mount sandisk card reader in Linux

[daphne and steve martindell]

I plugged in the USB Sandisk Image-Mate Smart Media card reader.
It appears to have ennumerated correctly because it has a device
entry at "/dev/sda".

So from what I have read on Google, I just have to mount the device
and I should be able to copy the picture  files from the memory card.
The memory card was written by an Olympus C700 digital camera.

this is what I have tried:

linux /root#  mount  -t  vfat  /dev/sda  /mnt/sandisk
mount: block device /dev/sda is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
       or too many mounted file systems

linux /root#  mount  -t  msdos  /dev/sda  /mnt/sandisk
mount: block device /dev/sda is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
       or too many mounted file systems

linux /root# mount -t autofs  /dev/sda  /mnt/sandisk
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
       or too many mounted file systems

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Maybe I'm guessing the wrong file-system type!?

Has anyone got one of these readers to work on Linux?

I'm running SuSE8.2    2.4.20-4GB

     -steve