USB card reader fails

[Martin Andersen]

Hello!

I've just bought this 6 in 1 USB 1.1 Pocketdrive (Hama), and
hoped that it would work in Fedora.

Of course, it doesn't work..
I have a 8 MB Sony memory stick.

/bin/dmesg output:


sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
Info fld=0x0, Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready
Additional sense indicates Medium not present
sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
sda: Write Protect is off
 sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
 unable to read partition table
Device busy for revalidation (usage=1)
Device 08:00 not ready.
 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
FAT: unable to read boot sector
sda: Unit Not Ready, sense:
Info fld=0x0, Current 00:00: sense key Not Ready
Additional sense indicates Medium not present
sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
Info fld=0x0, Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready
Additional sense indicates Medium not present
sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
sda: Write Protect is off
 sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
 unable to read partition table

When I try to mount with mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/cardreader :

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
       or too many mounted file systems

/var/log/messages:
Dec 18 00:21:46 workstation kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Dec 18 00:21:47 workstation kernel:  sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
Dec 18 00:21:47 workstation devlabel: devlabel service started/restarted
Dec 18 00:21:47 workstation kernel:  I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
Dec 18 00:21:47 workstation kernel:  unable to read partition table
Dec 18 00:21:48 workstation kernel: sda: Unit Not Ready, sense:
Dec 18 00:21:49 workstation kernel: Info fld=0x0, Current 00:00: sense 
key Not Ready
Dec 18 00:21:49 workstation kernel: Additional sense indicates Medium 
not present
Dec 18 00:21:49 workstation kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
Dec 18 00:21:49 workstation kernel: sda : status = 1, message = 00, host 
= 0, driver = 08
Dec 18 00:21:50 workstation kernel: Info fld=0x0, Current sd00:00: sense 
key Not Ready
Dec 18 00:21:50 workstation kernel: Additional sense indicates Medium 
not present
Dec 18 00:21:50 workstation kernel: sda : block size assumed to be 512 
bytes, disk size 1G


So am I fu**ed ?

PS. I tried to search the fedora archive, but it was down..

Martin.