[NBLUG/talk] mounting USB memory stick

[Kyle Rankin]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:14:58AM -0700, Glen Gunsalus wrote:
> Hmmm,  here is the pertinent /var/log/messages entry, but I'm not clever 
> enough to figure out what the problem is.  It looks like it can't decipher the 
> file system.
> 
[snip logs]
>  
> 
> What am I missing?

Looks like it actually can't properly access the device.  Is it a FAT32
filesystem?  It really looks like the module needs to be reloaded or
something.  Possibly try unloading and reloading usb-storage, (with
modprobe -r usb-storage; modprobe usb-storage) and maybe restarting hotplug
(if you have it installed) with /etc/init.d/hotplug restart

> 
> BTW, Kyle I enjoyed your autofs session at the last nblug meeting, but haven't 
> had time to follow through yet.

Thanks!  You'll find that once you get your usb drive properly mounting
under Linux, that autofs will make it even easier to use.

> 
> 
> >>> Kyle Rankin said:
>  > 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 m
>   >ount 
>  > > 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 usin
>   >g 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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