Can't mount my SD Card - Sony Touch - Linux

[rohan_orton]

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Hi,

I wasn't sure whether to post this in the Sony section or here, but I figured that this was probably more suitable to *nix questions. Apologies if not.

Just got myself a brand new 16G SD card for my PRS-600, formatted it using the reader itself, and plugged the reader into my linux box... but now i can't mount the card.

I'm running a pretty minimal Gentoo system (fluxbox) so no automagical mounting of drives courtesy of desktop managers. I've had no problem creating a fstab entry for the reader, just not the card. Have tried to mount /dev/sdd from the command line using auto, xfat, ext2, ext3, all to no avail. Output:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdd,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail  or so

Here's the chunk of dmesg that is relevant:

scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Sony     PRS-600          1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
scsi 5:0:0:1: Direct-Access     Sony     PRS-600 MS       1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
scsi 5:0:0:2: Direct-Access     Sony     PRS-600 SD       1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
scsi 5:0:0:3: Direct-Access     Sony     PRS-600 Launcher 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
sd 5:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
sd 5:0:0:2: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
sd 5:0:0:3: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] 802560 512-byte logical blocks: (410 MB/391 MiB)
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 0f 00 00 00
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 5:0:0:1: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 5:0:0:2: [sdd] 31116288 512-byte logical blocks: (15.9 GB/14.8 GiB)
sd 5:0:0:3: [sde] 20480 512-byte logical blocks: (10.4 MB/10.0 MiB)
sd 5:0:0:2: [sdd] Write Protect is off
sd 5:0:0:2: [sdd] Mode Sense: 0f 00 00 00
sd 5:0:0:2: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 5:0:0:3: [sde] Write Protect is on
sd 5:0:0:3: [sde] Mode Sense: 0f 00 80 00
sd 5:0:0:3: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sdb:
sd 5:0:0:2: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sdd:
sd 5:0:0:3: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sde: sdd1

sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 5:0:0:3: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 5:0:0:3: [sde] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 5:0:0:2: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 5:0:0:2: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdd.

Ran calibre-debug which gave me the following error:

...
Devices possibly connected: PRS-600/700/900 Device Interface,  
Failed to create mount point with error: No such file or directory
Failed to create marker with error: No such file or directory
Trying to open PRS-600/700/900 Device Interface ... Unable to mount card (Error code: 1)
OK
Main memory: '/mnt/reader/'
Total space: (410689536L, 0, 0)

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[rohan_orton]

Sorry,
A bit more info. Forgot about fdisk!

Disk /dev/sdd: 15.9 GB, 15931539456 bytes
1 heads, 32 sectors/track, 972384 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 32 * 512 = 16384 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdd1             257      972384    15554048    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Confirming that it is in fact formatted to fat.

[rohan_orton]

Haha,
I suddenly realised my problem! Needed to mount /dev/sdd1. Being particularly smart today it would seem!