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

[Jack Snodgrass]

On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 19:13, daphne and steve martindell wrote:
> 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".
> 

maybe 
mount /dev/sda1  /mnt/sandisk

the -t vfat will probably be auto detected.... probably... 

do an fdisk /dev/sda and then 'p' to make sure that there is 
one file system defined on  /dev/sda1

jack



> 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
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