localhost hejustrife # mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/1
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to startup volume: Invalid argument
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb1': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sdb1' doesn't have a valid NTFS.
Maybe you selected the wrong device? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/hda, not /dev/hda1)? Or the other way around?
localhost hejustrife # mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/1
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
missing codepage or other error
(aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
instead of some logical partition inside?)
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so