USB Flash Drive

[Robin Laing]

RoboticGolem wrote:
> Do any other of your usb devices work?  Is it just the flash drive? 
> Is the flash drive in your /etc/fstab file?  Is automout failing to
> mount it correctly and then leaving a stale mount floating on you
> system preventing you from using it anymore till a reboot?  I know its
> been a while, but I have a different mainboard and am not having a
> problem with my flash drive.  (...but mind you I have 3 usb hubs and
> about 10devices that run usb..)
> 
> -ROboticGolem
> 
> On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 17:39:15 -0600, Charles Curley
> <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 12:27:22PM +0200, Renier Lotter wrote:
>>
>>>I have a MSI K7-Delta Motherboard with an n-Force 2
>>>chipset. When I insert my flas drive the led(for the flash
>>>drive) goes on for only about 3 seconds and dies when I try
>>>to mount it, it seeks and after a while says that the drive
>>>is no longer available. Other computers I tried it on has
>>>no problem in mounting the drive. Could someone please tell
>>>me what I could do to fix this.
>>
>>I saw the same symptoms with a device
>>(http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=2739). I finally gave
>>up on it, reported it as unsupported, and ordered another from a
>>different vendor.
>>
>>Have you checked to see if the device is known to be compatible (or
>>not)? http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/.
>>
>>Have you tried it under a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel? I am finding out that 2.6
>>kernels have USB related problems 2.4 kernels do not.
>>
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I don't use automount with FC1 as it wasn't reliable.  I added a few 
lines to /etc/fstab to mount memory sticks.  All the Nikon camera's 
that I have used mounted automatically.

I played a couple of days to get automount to work but it wasn't worth 
the headache to me.  Same on my home computer running FC1.
-- 
Robin Laing