Lexar JumpDrive mount problem

[Ryan Sather]

Fritz Whittington wrote:

> On or about 2004-01-07 23:20, Ryan Sather whipped out a trusty #2 
> pencil and scribbled:
>
>> I'm having problems with a Lexar JumpDrive. When I plug it in, it 
>> creates an entry is fstab like this:
>> /dev/sda      /mnt/diskonkey     auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
>>
>> When I try and mount it using the Disks menu from the Gnome desktop, 
>> I get:
>>
>> Nautilus was unable to mount the selected volume.
>> and
>> mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified
>>
>> If I mount it manually using :
>> mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/diskonkey
>> it works fine
>>
>> If it makes any difference, the command:
>> usbmodules --device /proc/bus/usb/001/008
>> gives me:
>> usb-storage
>>
>> How can I change the device and mountpoint that it defaults to?
>>
>> ----
>> Ryan
>
>
> I note that the entry in fstab seems incorrect.  It should have 
> /dev/sda1 instead of /dev/sda.  This might be caused by a partition 
> table that is not quite what is expected.  What do you get from the 
> command:
> fdisk -l /dev/sda
>
> If you can back up the contents, then try doing a mkfs -t vfat 
> /dev/sda1 on it (while unmounted).  This should fix up the partition 
> table if that's what is causing the problem.
> You might put a regular entry for /dev/sda1 (without the "kudzu" parm) 
> into fstab.  This entry should survive unplugging it.  If you then 
> edit this entry to change auto to vfat, then it should mount from the 
> Disks menu.

fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 64 MB, 64487424 bytes
4 heads, 32 sectors/track, 984 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 128 * 512 = 65536 bytes
 
   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *         1       983     62896    6  FAT16

In /var/log/messages:

Jan  8 20:09:04 foo kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:04.2-2, assigned 
address 9
Jan  8 20:09:08 foo usb.agent[14099]: missing kernel or user mode driver 
usb-storage
Jan  8 20:09:08 foo kernel: SCSI device sda: 125952 512-byte hdwr 
sectors (64 MB)
Jan  8 20:09:08 foo kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Jan  8 20:09:08 foo kernel:  sda: sda1
Jan  8 20:09:09 foo kernel: cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I 
recognize!
Jan  8 20:09:12 foo devlabel: devlabel service started/restarted


After mkfs -t vfat /dev/sda1   /var/log/messages shows:

Jan  8 20:18:53 foo kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:04.2-2, assigned 
address 10
Jan  8 20:18:56 foo usb.agent[15416]: missing kernel or user mode driver 
usb-storage
Jan  8 20:18:56 foo kernel: SCSI device sda: 125952 512-byte hdwr 
sectors (64 MB)
Jan  8 20:18:56 foo kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Jan  8 20:18:56 foo kernel:  sda: sda1
Jan  8 20:18:56 foo kernel: cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I 
recognize!
Jan  8 20:18:58 foo devlabel: devlabel service started/restarted

If I try to mount it using from Gnome menu I only get one of the errors:
Nautilus was unable to mount the selected volume.

It works fine when I manually add the fstab entry. I was just trying to 
figure out a way to get it to work automatically.
Thanks

Ryan