[NBLUG/talk] mounting USB memory stick

[Kyle Rankin]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 10:53:20AM -0700, Glen Gunsalus wrote:
> 
> I have a visitor with a 256Mb Sandisk USB stick flash that I'm trying to mount 
> on a RH 7.3 machine.  I keep getting "No medium found."   This has files 
> written on the flash using a Mac Powerbook.
> 
> I have no problem with finding a 128MB CF card from my digital camera using a 
> USB adapter on my machine.
> 
> Here is the fstab entry I user for successful mounting of the CF:
> 
> /dev/sdb1               /mnt/flash              auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
> 
> I've tried variations on type, etc, but no go.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 

Glen,

I would scan through your /var/log/syslog (or /var/log/messages) and make
sure that /dev/sdb1 is the device assigned to that usb drive.  Also, is
the usb-storage module loaded?  or if not, is hotplug correctly recognizing
that this device is a usb-storage device?

By the way, I go over automatically setting up usb disks with hotplug on my
tips page:  http://greenfly.org/tips/usb_drive.html

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