Dell usb memory stick

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 09:15:48PM -0400, rehmert at gmail.com wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 21:04 -0400, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
> > On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 18:47:09 -0400, rehmert at gmail.com wrote:
> > 
> > > On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 18:16 -0400, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
> > >> On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 16:04:45 -0500, akonstam wrote:
> > >> > On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 12:48:40PM -0400, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
> > >> >> I'm trying to access a usb memory stick (FC4), and I think it's detected
> > >> >> but I don't know how to access it. I tried guessing /dev/sd? but in /dev I
> > >> >> only have sda? for my partitions only, and nothing else. So 
> > >> >> 
> > >> >> mount -t vfat /dev/sd? /media/usb
> > >> >> 
> > > 
> > > Try this:
> > > 
> > > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/usb
> > 
> > sda1-sda10 are my partitions. And there's no other /dev/sd? . 
> >  
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> 
> Is your primary drive a SCSI or SATA?  That's probably the case...  If
> so, have you tried the next:
> 
> mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/usb
> 
> Unless, of course, you have a secondary HDD installed...
I agree with your analysis. /dev/sdb1 would be the device to try. And
the fact that sda is a disk drive screws things up a little. But I am
still concerned that it does not automount. Sounds like udev ,
fstab-sync and maybe hal needs to be talked to harshly.
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