Recently, I received a Sandisk Connect Wireless media drive for my birthday. It is a nifty little device and I was ready to load up some content to give it a spin. I connected it to my Ubuntu 12.04 laptop via its micro USB port. Upon connecting it, I received the error message that the OS was unable to mount the file system - Error mounting: mount: Unknown file system type ‘exfat’.
Fortunately, there exists a PPA to solve this problem:
$ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:relan/exfat
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install fuse-exfat exfat-utils