usb devices

[Russell Golden]

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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