Help needed with SanDisk CRUZER memory stick

[Caleb Rodriguez]

Thank you that kind of seemed to work for me as well. The only catch is
that only root can mount the drive which i should be able to change the
permissions. 
When I do attempt to mount the drive I get the following:

root at localhost etc]# mount /dev/sda1
mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device

Can you help me with this please?
Thank you

On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 21:31, Jim Cornette wrote:
> John Wendel wrote:
> 
> >I just got a SanDisk CRUZER 256MB USB memory thingy. It no workey!
> >
> >The USB is on a VIA 8235 chip if that matters.
> >
> >Could some of you gurus take a look at these messages and give me a 
> >clue about what I need to do to get this device working. I suspect 
> >that I'm missing a module, but I can't figure out what I need.
> >
> >Sorry about the size of this messages. I've trimmed out all the stuff 
> >that seemed irrelevant, but I didn't want to lose something 
> >important.
> >
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >John
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> This part seems to be saying that it is on /dev/sda (the whole hard 
> drive is this) and is most likely /dev/sda1 (first partition on /dev/sda)
> 
> Basically, create a directory to mount the stick on. mkdir /dev/memstick 
> then add an entry like this to your /etc/fstab file.
> 
> /dev/sda1               /mnt/memstick                   vfat    
> noauto,owner,rw 0 0
> 
> Then to mount the disk by typing one of the two following commands:
> 
> mount /dev/sda1
> 
> or
> 
> mount /mnt/memstick
> 
> There are different options to add to the part of the entry of vfat can 
> be different to get the device working for each user. Check "man mount" 
> and "man fstab" for the options needed for each command and file.
> 
> Jim
> 
> Dec 22 20:11:21 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 512000 512-byte 
> hdwr 
> sectors (262 MB)
> 
>