On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Mailing List wrote: > On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 09:17:32 +0200 (SAST), Willem van der > Walt<willem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <willem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Funny as it might sound, I have had one of these thet worked when mounted > > without a partition number. > > ie. mount -tvfat /dev/sdb /mnt/floppy > > hth > > Regards Willem > > > > Yeah, I tried that. Unfortunately it didn't work. > > I keep on getting the message: > > mount: /dev/sdb is not a valid block device > > There is nothing wrong with the flash drive as it work without a > hitch on other Linux boxes. It's just this one box I get the problems > on. > Just out of curiosity, have you tried: cdrecord -scanbus to see if it is even showing up? My experience is that these devices (JumpDrive/FlashDisk/USB memory drive) show up under Linux as SCSI devices. The "cdrecord" command will tell you where they are: SCSI bus, LUN, and target. My instructions to our users is to use that command to locate the device, then map the "cdrecord" output to a SCSI device ID (/dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc.) Carl Carl G. Riches Software Engineer Department of Mathematics Box 354350 voice: 206-543-5082 or 206-616-3636 University of Washington fax: 206-543-0397 Seattle, WA 98195-4350 internet: riches@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
