Dell usb memory stick

[Amadeus W. M.]

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 06:07:09 -0500, akonstam wrote:

> 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? . 
>> >  
> <snip>
>> 
>> 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.
> -- 

I'm not surprised it doesn't automount. The only entry I have in
/etc/auto.misc is this:

cd              -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev :/dev/cdrom