Help with USB and Red Hat 9

[lachon]

I have a 2gb usb,and when I plug it in USB port,Redhat 9 automatically detects it as /dev/sdc,but when I try to mount it with :mount -t vfat /dev/sdc /mnt/usb/stick ,it replies that there is a bad superblock,or too many mounted filesystems,or so. If somebody can help me,I would be very grateful.I can paste as well the error messages.

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Execute this

su -
fdisk -l
df -h

Post output here.

[lachon]

Hi,when I plug my USB,the bash shows:
Vendor :Jetflash etc.
SCSI Device sdc: ..2002942 512 byte header sectors(1026MB)
sdc:write protect is off
sdc:assumed drive cache:write through
SCSI Device sdc: ..2002942 512 byte header sectors(1026MB)

Attached scsi removable disk sdc at scsi4,channel 0,id 0,lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg3 at scsi4,channel 0,id0,lun0,type 0
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When I run fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sdc:1025 MB,1025506304 bytes
33 heads,63 sectors/track,963 cylinders
Device Boot Start1 End Blocks Id System W95 fat
/dev/sdc 1 964 1001455 b
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-linux?)
phys=(0,1,1), logical =(0,0,33)
phys=(225,32,63) logical =(963,14,46)
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When I run df -h, sdc is not shown
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I tried to mount the USB with
mount /dev/sdc /mnt/usb-stick
and it shows:
FAT(invalid media value 0x00)
mount:you must specify file type


When I type mount -t vfat /dev/sdc /mnt/usb-stick, it shows
FAT(invalid media value 0x00)
mount:wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc, or too many mounted file systems.

[devils casper]

Something is wrong with partition of USB Stick. Is it working fine in Windows Machine?
In case it doesn't work in Windows machine too, you have to format stick.
Try force option with mount command but it may corrupt partition more.

mount -t vfat /dev/sdc /mnt/usb-stick -o defaults,force,umask=0