Dell usb memory stick

[Mike McGrath]

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> 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 9:53 PM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Dell usb memory stick
> 
> On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 11:33:49 -0500, akonstam wrote:
> 
> >> >> 
> >> >> 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
> >> 
> > Ok, the above line is the only commented line in 
> /etc/auto.misc but my 
> > memory stick automounts. The reason it does is the line in the 
> > /etc/fstab
> > /dev/sda1               /media/usbdisk          vfat 
> pamconsole,exec,noauto,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t
> ,managed 0 0
> > --
> > Now that line is managed by the fstab-sync system. Clearly 
> your line 
> > could not be referring to /dev/sda1.
> > 
> > I would assume that you need to edit the fstab-sync files 
> and choose 
> > another device e.g /dev/sdb1 on which to mount the stick. 
> > Unfortunately I can't quickly find the file that needs 
> editing but a 
> > line like the one above needs to show up in your fstab file. Maybe 
> > someone can come up with the needed changes that need to be made.
> > 
> 
> I don't have that line in fstab, but it doesn't matter. I 
> know how to make it mount automatically, as long as I know 
> what device the kernel sees it as. And actually I prefer 
> mounting things manually, so that I know. I guess in their 
> quest to making things look/behave more and more like the 
> "other" OS, developers have made the life more difficult for 
> people who want to know what's under the hood.
> 
> 
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What you put in fstab, automount or any other location won't matter if
your machine does not know that the USB drive is in it.  If all you're
getting in messages is:

> Aug 13 12:01:22 phoenix kernel: usb 5-1: new full speed USB device
using uhci_hcd and address 2

Then something in the kernel is not loaded properly or the drive is
busted.  Have you verified that usb-storage is loaded?  run:

cat /proc/modules | grep storage

You should see something like:

usb_storage 71104 1 - Live 0xf941f000

	-Mike