[PLUG] scsi drive mount error

[Bill Barry]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 3:20 PM, VY <vyau5678 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi:
>
> I got an Android phone and when I attached it to my Ubuntu laptop,
> I can see that it recognizes it as SCSI drive.
> I can see the device under /dev.
>
> When I tried to mount it as NTFS, I got these errors:
>
> sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sg2 /media/mydisk
> Error reading bootsector: Illegal seek
> Failed to sync device /dev/sg2: Invalid argument
> Failed to mount '/dev/sg2': Illegal seek
>
>
> I tried VFAT too but no help.
>
> Anything I am doing wrong?
>
>

It is a vfat file system, not ntfs, but that does not seem to be the whole
problem. What is the output of
sudo  fdisk -l /dev/sg2

Bill