Lexar JumpDrive mount problem

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ryan,

Here is how I added mine :)  I wrote a small post for my website for 
it.

http://www.usalug.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1319

Hope that helps :)

Crouse

-----Original Message-----
From: Ryan Sather <ryan at ryansather.com>
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Sent: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 21:02:57 -0600
Subject: Re: Lexar JumpDrive mount problem

Fritz Whittington wrote:

  > On or about 2004-01-07 23:20, Ryan Sather whipped out a trusty #2 > 
pencil and scribbled:
 >
  >> I'm having problems with a Lexar JumpDrive. When I plug it in, it 
>> creates an entry is fstab like this:
 >> /dev/sda /mnt/diskonkey auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
 >>
  >> When I try and mount it using the Disks menu from the Gnome 
desktop, >> I get:
 >>
 >> Nautilus was unable to mount the selected volume.
 >> and
  >> mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was 
specified
 >>
 >> If I mount it manually using :
 >> mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/diskonkey
 >> it works fine
 >>
 >> If it makes any difference, the command:
 >> usbmodules --device /proc/bus/usb/001/008
 >> gives me:
 >> usb-storage
 >>
 >> How can I change the device and mountpoint that it defaults to?
 >>
 >> ----
 >> Ryan
 >
 >
  > I note that the entry in fstab seems incorrect. It should have > 
/dev/sda1 instead of /dev/sda. This might be caused by a partition > 
table that is not quite what is expected. What do you get from the > 
command:
 > fdisk -l /dev/sda
 >
  > If you can back up the contents, then try doing a mkfs -t vfat > 
/dev/sda1 on it (while unmounted). This should fix up the partition > 
table if that's what is causing the problem.
  > You might put a regular entry for /dev/sda1 (without the "kudzu" 
parm) > into fstab. This entry should survive unplugging it. If you 
then > edit this entry to change auto to vfat, then it should mount 
from the > Disks menu.

 fdisk -l /dev/sda

 Disk /dev/sda: 64 MB, 64487424 bytes
 4 heads, 32 sectors/track, 984 cylinders
 Units = cylinders of 128 * 512 = 65536 bytes
 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
 /dev/sda1 * 1 983 62896 6 FAT16

 In /var/log/messages:

  Jan 8 20:09:04 foo kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:04.2-2, assigned 
address 9
  Jan 8 20:09:08 foo usb.agent[14099]: missing kernel or user mode 
driver usb-storage
  Jan 8 20:09:08 foo kernel: SCSI device sda: 125952 512-byte hdwr 
sectors (64 MB)
 Jan 8 20:09:08 foo kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
 Jan 8 20:09:08 foo kernel: sda: sda1
  Jan 8 20:09:09 foo kernel: cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I 
recognize!
 Jan 8 20:09:12 foo devlabel: devlabel service started/restarted

 After mkfs -t vfat /dev/sda1 /var/log/messages shows:

  Jan 8 20:18:53 foo kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:04.2-2, assigned 
address 10
  Jan 8 20:18:56 foo usb.agent[15416]: missing kernel or user mode 
driver usb-storage
  Jan 8 20:18:56 foo kernel: SCSI device sda: 125952 512-byte hdwr 
sectors (64 MB)
 Jan 8 20:18:56 foo kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
 Jan 8 20:18:56 foo kernel: sda: sda1
  Jan 8 20:18:56 foo kernel: cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I 
recognize!
 Jan 8 20:18:58 foo devlabel: devlabel service started/restarted

  If I try to mount it using from Gnome menu I only get one of the 
errors:
 Nautilus was unable to mount the selected volume.

  It works fine when I manually add the fstab entry. I was just trying 
to figure out a way to get it to work automatically.
 Thanks

 Ryan


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