mount ipod nano problem

[Daidalus13]

My ipod nano works fine. It plays my stored music and I can browse all I have stored in it.
However, I am trying to mount it but I get this error message

me@mycomputer:$ mount /mnt/usbhd
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

I am using the /mnt/usbhd mount point for any mass storage device I have (usb hard disk, a memory stick) and everything works fine. This is my fstab contents:

me@mycomputer:$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda6 /swap ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbhd vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0


Then I do this:

me@mycomputer:$ dmesg | tail

and gives me this:

usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 3999744 512-byte hdwr sectors (2048 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2
FAT: bogus logical sector size 23597
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 08:01.

Any ideas? Any feedback much appreciated.

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Debian Sarge 2.4 Kernel

[Daidalus13]

The problem is that ipod nano (perhaps all ipods) has two partitions. Which one to mount can be found using fdisk. Here is the solution

me@mycomputer$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 2047 MB, 2047868928 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 248 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 10 80293+ 0 Empty
/dev/sda2 11 248 1911732 b W95 FAT32

(Note: sudo gives me root priveleges. If you don't want to use it, login as root)

So, I mount the second partition

me@mycomputer$ sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/usbhd -t vfat

and everything works fine.

By the way. This was answered in Debian User Forums :: Index.

Daidalus13