What is the file system type for smart media cards? ("mount -t auto" says no dice)

[Buddha Bart]

I'm trying to get my card reader working on my redhat 7.3 machine, and when I issue the mount command it wants me to specify what file system type. Anyone know what the answer is? Its an Olympus D-520 zoom camera that wrote to the smartmedia card if it matters.

bart

 

[corkyg]

Olympus cameras use standard FAT in SmartMedia. I didn't know Linux was so spastic. What's this "mount" stuff? I just plug my reader into USB - it goes "bing-bing" and is ready for use as a lettered drive.

 

[AndyHui]

Generally removable media uses FAT12 (not FAT16, or the regular FAT32).

 

[Electrode]

just specify msdos as the filesystem. The Linux FAT driver will recognize the FAT12 filesystem.

If you ever want to format the smartmedia card, just use mkdosfs -F 12 to ensure you get a FAT12 filesystem. Note that windows doesn't give you this choice.

 

[Nothinman]

Run 'file -s /dev/whatever' and see what it says, file has magic numbers for a lot of file types and the majority of filesystems.

I didn't know Linux was so spastic. What's this "mount" stuff? I just plug my reader into USB - it goes "bing-bing" and is ready for use as a lettered drive

Drive letters are so 90's.

 

[Buddha Bart]

thanks nothingman, i'll try that right now. In the mean time, I think I have another problem concurrent to that. Can anyone make any sense of this?

Sep 19 23:44:28 boondock kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Sep 19 23:44:28 boondock kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
Sep 19 23:44:28 boondock kernel: sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
Sep 19 23:44:28 boondock kernel: Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready
Sep 19 23:44:28 boondock kernel: Additional sense indicates Medium not present
Sep 19 23:44:28 boondock kernel: sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
Sep 19 23:44:28 boondock kernel: sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
Sep 19 23:44:28 boondock kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
Sep 19 23:44:28 boondock kernel: unable to read partition table

[edit]
Darn, didn't work.

[root@boondock dev]# file -s /dev/sda
/dev/sda: file: read failed (Input/output error).

[/edit]

bart

 

[Nothinman]

ep 19 23:44:28 boondock kernel: Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready
Sep 19 23:44:28 boondock kernel: Additional sense indicates Medium not present

Looks like it's not seeing the media. Have you tried the media in another box/OS to make sure it's good?

 

[Buddha Bart]

yep, i just transfered the stuff to onto my laptop at work (win2k).

I can't use my windows desktop at home because the moment any operating system tries to load its usb mass-storage driver it flips out and freezes. Good old VIA chipsets.

bart