Re: Dell usb memory stick

akonstam_at_trinity.edu
Date: 08/14/05

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    Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 06:07:09 -0500
    To: rehmert@gmail.com, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
    
    

    On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 09:15:48PM -0400, rehmert@gmail.com wrote:
    > On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 21:04 -0400, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
    > > On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 18:47:09 -0400, rehmert@gmail.com wrote:
    > >
    > > > On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 18:16 -0400, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
    > > >> On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 16:04:45 -0500, akonstam wrote:
    > > >> > On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 12:48:40PM -0400, Amadeus W. M. wrote:
    > > >> >> I'm trying to access a usb memory stick (FC4), and I think it's detected
    > > >> >> but I don't know how to access it. I tried guessing /dev/sd? but in /dev I
    > > >> >> only have sda? for my partitions only, and nothing else. So
    > > >> >>
    > > >> >> mount -t vfat /dev/sd? /media/usb
    > > >> >>
    > > >
    > > > Try this:
    > > >
    > > > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/usb
    > >
    > > sda1-sda10 are my partitions. And there's no other /dev/sd? .
    > >
    <snip>
    >
    > 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.

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