Linux with flash card reader - can't access files

[Lonyo]

I've just installed Mandrake 8.1 on a PC, it's my first Linux try-out.
I have a USB card reader that is detected, and shows up as /mnt/windows Linux knows it has some space used on it (25MB out of 32MB free), but it doesn't show any files on the drive. There should be a txt file and a run file. The formatting of the card is FAT, so I don't see why it can't read the files. The files were put on from a Windows 2000 machine, if that would make any difference?

I don't know what to do, I've only had it about 3 hours, which isn't enough time to play really, but I don't have any time now to read the manual or do much looking, so I'm hoping someone will be able to point me in the right direction.

 

[drag]

Can you see if from the command line?

You know "cd /mnt/windows/"

then

ls -al
(shows all files)


Also FAT doesn't handle Posix (unix) style permissions so who ever mounted it owns is, could be that they permissions don't allow you to read the file or directory. If you can't "execute" a directory you can view it's internals... try using the su command to become root or switch to one of the virtual consoles (atl+ctrl+Fn were Fn = F1-F6) then seening if you can see the files. (unfortunatly I don't have the pleasure of owning a flash card reader so I can't be too sure on the specifics)

 

[Nothinman]

It should be seen as a SCSI drive via the usb-storage driver. Type 'mount' to see if it's really mounted, then run 'file -s /dev/sda' and 'file -s /dev/sda1', those should tell you what filesystem is on the thing if it can read it. It's possible the filesystem is confusing the vfat or msdos driver, most cameras have really dumb FAT drivers for simplicity.