usb devices

[dbrett at tcn.net]

Hi Russell

I am going to assume I have completely lost my mind and did not do it
right.  (I though I had checked sda)

I had not know about adding it to fstab.  This is good idea, wish I had
though of it.

david

On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Russell Golden wrote:

> 
> Which version are you using? In Red Hat Linux 9, you take the highest 
> SCSI device you have (sda, sdb, etc) and increase the last letter by 
> one. So if you had one SCSI drive already, the USB drive would be sdb. 
> if you had none, it would be 'sda.' (i went through this myself.)
> once you figure that out, make a mount point in /etc/fstab. here's the 
> line I use:
> 
> 
> 
> /dev/sda1 /mnt/flashdrive vfat user,noauto,umask=0 0 0
> 
> device/partition mount point fs type
> 
> make sure you create the directory in /mnt before you try to use the 
> flash drive
> 
> 
> If you use something besides RH9, I can't help you. sry
> 
> dbrett at tcn.net wrote:
> 
> >I have used different versions for a while now and was happy with the way
> >things worked  out.  Lately things have been getting frustrating.  Some of
> >it is not the fault of the software, too hard to keep up. i.e. my laptop
> >barely works on Linux.  So I wait for the drivers to come out.  
> >
> >This one is more than frustrating, could be the hour and brain not
> >working.  I had to reinstall the os because the hard drive crashed.  I
> >decided to upgrade.  I plugged in my usb pen drive to copy so files back
> >on the system.  I cannot find the usb drive.  On older versions I would
> >look in "/var/log/messages" to see where the system saw it and mount it
> >manually.  Newer systems would mount it for me.  Now the systems sees it
> >correctly, but I can't find it and I have no idea where the system sees
> >it.
> >
> >This is what is in the log.
> >
> >
> >Nov 25 22:58:14 localhost kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod
> >0x781/0x5150) is not claimed by any active driver.
> >Nov 25 22:58:17 localhost /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usb-storage for
> >USB product 781/5150/10
> >Nov 25 22:58:17 localhost kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> >Nov 25 22:58:17 localhost kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
> >Nov 25 22:58:17 localhost kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass
> >Storage devices
> >Nov 25 22:58:17 localhost kernel: Starting timer : 0 0
> >Nov 25 22:58:17 localhost kernel:   Vendor: SanDisk   Model: Cruzer Mini
> >Rev: 0.1
> >Nov 25 22:58:17 localhost kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access
> >ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> >Nov 25 22:58:17 localhost kernel: Starting timer : 0 0
> >Nov 25 22:58:17 localhost kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
> >Nov 25 22:58:18 localhost devlabel: devlabel service started/restarted
> >
> >Ok what do I have to do to get it access to it?
> >
> >david
> >
> >  
> >
> 
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