On Sunday 23 November 2003 2:31 am, Roger Chrisman wrote:
Hi,
Now that I have installed SuSE 9 I cannot mount my digital camera's Compact Flash card via USB port. I was able to on SuSE 8.2.
The file system on the Compact Flash card is vfat apparently, because I get this on SuSE 9 when I try the mount command:
# mount /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel
The above mount command had been working on SuSE 8.2 but now that I have SuSE 9 installed I am getting that, "mount: fs type vfat not supported by kernel" error in SuSE 9.
Is this REALLY a true limitation of SuSE 9?
Or is there something else going wrong?
How can I fix this?
Frustrated because this was such a slick thing on SuSE 8.2 -- just plug the Compact Flash card indo my system's USB port with my SimpleTech USB to Compact Flash adapter. Now it doesn't work :-\
I'm confused , do you mean it doesn't read the card in a card reader, or in the camera? It reads mine fine in my card reader... and puts the thing on my ( user) desktop as soon as the thing is plugged in. In fact it is easier adn less finicky than it was in 8.2! However, one of my users was having an intermittant problem w/ his card reader and it turned ou the thing was dying. ( inexpensive items sometimes just seem to do that. <sigh> ) We got him a newer , and very slightly pricier one and all it well there too. So I would start by grabbing another reader off soemone elses desk and seeing if that works... IIRC just clicking on the reader mounted it if there were any media in it. ( And anything on the thing ) Perjaps you should look to see if the mount point exhists? AND then try a different card in your current reader ... try a cd to teh mount point and then ls -l or any similar instruction, if those don't work , perhaps you need to check the permissions ??? <shrug>