Re: problems with flash drive

From: Robert Grizzard (grizzarv_at_mindspring.com.invalid)
Date: 04/22/04

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    Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 03:31:38 GMT

    Sonoman <nospam@microsoft.com> wrote:

    > Hi all:
    > Iam trying to mount a usb thumb drive in my fedora core 1 (kernel version
    > 2.6.5). I use the command "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/thumb" and I the the
    > following error:

    > [root@localhost mnt]# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/thumb
    > mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device

    > my fstab looks as follows:

    > [root@localhost mnt]# cat /etc/fstab
    > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
    > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
    > none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
    > none /proc proc defaults 0 0
    > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
    > /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
    > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,auto 0 0
    > /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,auto 0 0
    > /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd udf ro,user,auto 0 0
    > /dev/sda1 /mnt/thumb vfat noauto,user 0 0

    > I have tried several commands and edited the fstab file several times but I
    > always get the same error message as shown above. Please advise.

    Plug the thumb drive into your USB port, then type the command
    "cat /proc/bus/usb/devices | grep 1111". If it returns
    "P: Vendor=0a16 ProdID=1111 Rev= 1.00", give up now. I spent a month
    last summer trying to hack this into the kernel, finally buying a
    different brand that worked the first time when I plugged it in.

    If grep doesn't give you a hit on "1111", run the command
    "`which lsmod` | grep usb" (those things inside the double quotes are
    backticks, not single quotes) and see if one of the responses you get is
    "usb-storage". If not, try loading it with "modprobe usb-storage" and
    mounting the thumb drive. If you do get "usb-storage" as one of your
    responses, run "/sbin/fdisk -l" and verify first that you actually do
    have a /dev/sda and second that it is partitioned the way you think it
    is.

    HTH 

    -- 
To design the perfect anti-Unix, write an operating system that thinks
it knows what you're doing better than you do. And then adds injury to
insult by getting it wrong.
 - esr
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