On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 09:23:04AM +0200, Andor Demarteau wrote: > On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, John J. Boyer wrote: > > > My new Dell computer has no floppy drive. It does have a removable > > "keyring" USB flash drive. The machine is dual-boot, and both Linux and > > Windows recognize this device. Windows assigns it to drive E. Linux does > > not say which device name has been assigned to it, and a search through > > /dev did not turn up anything that seemed likely. > just to check, do you have usb-mass storage loaded and/or present? > USB deviceses use scsi-disk-devices for this. > If you pluig it in, the demsg output (or output on the console) lists the > partiition-table for i.e. /dev/sda > > > I would like to use this > > device to transfer data between Linux and Windows. How do I mount it? What > > device type do I use? > it's actually a normal disk in the sense of mounting. > use the /dev/sd* (scsi-disk) devices and most of these devices have a vfat > fs on them (don't do auot cause that sometiems mounts it as a dosfs which > kills your long filenmaes). > Once you have loaded the modules: usb-driver, usb-storage and ide-scsi emulation, and after inserting the drive, look at /proc/partitions to find the device driver asigned. David ----- _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list