USB Flash drive ??

["Asplund, Marcus" <Masplund Remel com>]

Hello Fellow RH enthusiasts,
I am having a difficult time mounting a memorex USB flash mem. stick. 
I made a directory /mnt/memstick then mounted it using 
#mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/memstick. This works in RH9. No luck though in
Fedora. I had read that Fedora core should auto detect and place an icon on
the desktop for USB 2.0 flash mem. That didn't happen either . Any
suggestions??? Thanks in advance.
Thanks 

Marc