[ILUG] USB mass storage woes

[Kae Verens]

Marek McGann wrote:

>Picked up a nice new Philips "wearable audio" mp3 key, but having a
>nightmare trying to mount it under Mandrake 10.0.
>
>mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
>  
>

you haven't told the computer what fs type to use

try:
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

or if that doesn't work:
mount -t msdos /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

Kae