Hi Russell I am going to assume I have completely lost my mind and did not do it right. (I though I had checked sda) I had not know about adding it to fstab. This is good idea, wish I had though of it. david On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Russell Golden wrote: > > Which version are you using? In Red Hat Linux 9, you take the highest > SCSI device you have (sda, sdb, etc) and increase the last letter by > one. So if you had one SCSI drive already, the USB drive would be sdb. > if you had none, it would be 'sda.' (i went through this myself.) > once you figure that out, make a mount point in /etc/fstab. here's the > line I use: > > > > /dev/sda1 /mnt/flashdrive vfat user,noauto,umask=0 0 0 > > device/partition mount point fs type > > make sure you create the directory in /mnt before you try to use the > flash drive > > > If you use something besides RH9, I can't help you. sry > > dbrett@xxxxxxx wrote: > > >I have used different versions for a while now and was happy with the way > >things worked out. Lately things have been getting frustrating. Some of > >it is not the fault of the software, too hard to keep up. i.e. my laptop > >barely works on Linux. So I wait for the drivers to come out. > > > >This one is more than frustrating, could be the hour and brain not > >working. I had to reinstall the os because the hard drive crashed. I > >decided to upgrade. I plugged in my usb pen drive to copy so files back > >on the system. I cannot find the usb drive. On older versions I would > >look in "/var/log/messages" to see where the system saw it and mount it > >manually. Newer systems would mount it for me. Now the systems sees it > >correctly, but I can't find it and I have no idea where the system sees > >it. > > > >This is what is in the log. > > > > > >Nov 25 22:58:14 localhost kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod > >0x781/0x5150) is not claimed by any active driver. > >Nov 25 22:58:17 localhost /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usb-storage for > >USB product 781/5150/10 > >Nov 25 22:58:17 localhost kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... > >Nov 25 22:58:17 localhost kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage > >Nov 25 22:58:17 localhost kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass > >Storage devices > >Nov 25 22:58:17 localhost kernel: Starting timer : 0 0 > >Nov 25 22:58:17 localhost kernel: Vendor: SanDisk Model: Cruzer Mini > >Rev: 0.1 > >Nov 25 22:58:17 localhost kernel: Type: Direct-Access > >ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > >Nov 25 22:58:17 localhost kernel: Starting timer : 0 0 > >Nov 25 22:58:17 localhost kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. > >Nov 25 22:58:18 localhost devlabel: devlabel service started/restarted > > > >Ok what do I have to do to get it access to it? > > > >david > > > > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
