solarian Posted August 31, 2004 Report Share Posted August 31, 2004 (edited) Hi there! I have an iriver mp3 player and I've set its firmware to show up as a usb hard drive. Works well on windows , but I'm tired of VMwaring it... It didn't show on my desktop as icon when plugged in, but Mandrake loaded the drivers. I created a folder under mount named usbdrive I edited the /etc/fstab and added a line /dev/sda /mnt/usbdrive vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 but upon mounting I get this error [root@localhost]# mount /mnt/usbdrive/dev/sda: Input/output error mount: /dev/sda: can't read superblock Under harddrake I see iriver storage in the hd section labeled sda and usbview also says that there is something connected to the usb port. The problem is upon mounting and I'm suspicious that I have put in an incorrect fstab line. Maybe there is some parameter missing. Any help? thanx! Edited August 31, 2004 by solarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted September 1, 2004 Report Share Posted September 1, 2004 (edited) You should be mounting /dev/sda1 if this device is not there, run mcc or harddrake and be patient; it can take up to 5 minutes for it to be created... Search and read some of my earlier messages on this board; I have not found a fix to increase this speed. Read for instance this: http://mandrakeusers.org/index.php?showtopic=16119&hl= Edited September 1, 2004 by aRTee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solarian Posted October 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 (edited) it doesn't create :( this is from harddrake Bus: SCSI Location on the bus: 0:0:0 Channel: 0 Description: (null) New devfs device: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc Old device file: /dev/sda Module: unknown Floppy format: iRiver iFP Mass Driver Media class: hd (Mass Storage|SCSI|Bulk (Zip)) and this is from terminal [root@localhost]# mount /mnt/usbdrivemount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist Edited October 18, 2004 by solarian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avadis Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 I have had a similiar problem with the USB 2.0 NEC card and an asonic USB 2.0 hub hooked on this USB port. I think the Mandrake 10.1 kernel has a problem there. Go back to Kernel 2.6.3 that comes with the Mandrake 10 boxed set and your USB setup will be working properly. I have not yet been able to pinpoint the error. Sincerely Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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