[ale] mounting an SD card

[jknapka at kneuro.net (JK)]

Jim Philips wrote:

>I'm trying to mount an SD card I bought for a new camera. I find my card 
>reader in dmesg, like so:
>
>usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
>  Vendor: Generic   Model: USB SD Reader     Rev: 1.00
>  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
>sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
>
>But if I try to mount it, I get:
>
>bash-3.1# mount /dev/sda -t vfat /mnt/sd
>
Try

bash-3.1# mount /dev/sda1 -t vfat /mnt/sd

You need to tell it which partition to mount. Usually the first partition
on an  SD card is the data one, but you can "fdisk /dev/sda" and issue
the "p" command to see them all.

Cheers,

-- JK