Dell usb memory stick
Mike McGrath
mmcgrath at iesabroad.org
Sun Aug 14 14:02:20 UTC 2005
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Amadeus W. M.
> Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 8:42 AM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Dell usb memory stick
>
> On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 21:15:48 -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? .
> >>
> >> [root at phoenix ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda
> >>
> >> Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120060444672 bytes
> >> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14596 cylinders Units = cylinders of
> >> 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> >>
> >> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> >> /dev/sda1 1 13 104391 83 Linux
> >> /dev/sda2 * 14 523 4096575 7 HPFS/NTFS
> >> /dev/sda3 524 650 1020127+ 83 Linux
> >> /dev/sda4 651 14596 112021245 f
> W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> >> /dev/sda5 651 9574 71681998+ 83 Linux
> >> /dev/sda6 9575 10211 5116671 83 Linux
> >> /dev/sda7 10212 10848 5116671 83 Linux
> >> /dev/sda8 10849 11103 2048256 83 Linux
> >> /dev/sda9 11104 11358 2048256 82
> Linux swap / Solaris
> >> /dev/sda10 11359 14596 26009203+ 83 Linux
> >>
> >
> > 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...
>
> Of course...
> [root at phoenix ~]# mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/usb/
> mount: special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist
>
>
> I tried sdb1-10, sdc1-10, etc. Nothing.
>
> I only have a single hard disk, and it's SATA.
>
> What worries me is that in other posts on memory sticks,
> people showed in /var/log/messages entries saying what sd?
> the memory stick was seen as. I only see in my logs a single entry:
>
> Aug 13 12:01:22 phoenix kernel: usb 5-1: new full speed USB
> device using uhci_hcd and address 2
>
> Something is amiss here. I don't know what to look into.
>
>
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Are you using a customized kernel? Check and verify that the module
usb-storage is loaded.
-Mike
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