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Removeable media and mounting

Asked by Gregory Greene

I have a nikon coolpix 7600 and a rca lyra rd2010b when i connect them via usb cable i get a message reading: "Unable to mount the volume 'RCA_LYRA'. mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on / dev/sda1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error in some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so" what can i do to get these to mount or just get them so i can copy files ontu them?

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Vojtěch Trefný (vojtech.trefny) said : 		#1

"...or other error in some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so"

So try "dmesg | tail" and give us the output.

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Gregory Greene (titusandtannersdad) said : 		#2

how do i do that i am new to linux and haven't gotten used to it

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Gregory Greene (titusandtannersdad) said : 		#3

[26790.838448] SCSI device sdb: 1000448 512-byte hdwr sectors (512 MB)
[26790.841336] sdb: Write Protect is off
[26790.841345] sdb: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[26790.841349] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[26790.841357] sdb: sdb1
[26790.849098] sd 5:0:0:1: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
[26790.849178] sd 5:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[26792.372081] FAT: Unrecognized mount option "usefree" or missing value
[26792.698716] FAT: Unrecognized mount option "usefree" or missing value
[27373.338677] usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 7

is that what you were after

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Best Vojtěch Trefný (vojtech.trefny) said : 		#4

It seeme to be similar to this bug - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-mount/+bug/151025

(from discussion below bugreport)
HERE'S THE FIX:
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Go into gconf-editor and navigate to /system/storage/default_options/vfat/mount_options, and then remove the "usefree" option from the list. Exit gconf-editor, and try hotplugging your drive again. It works :-)

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Gregory Greene (titusandtannersdad) said : 		#5

Thanks Vojtěch Trefný, that solved my question.