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David Bell wrote:
On Tuesday 16 August 2005 20:15, David Johnson wrote:Did Linux see it and just not mount it, did it see it and not have a driver for it or did it not even notice that it had been plugged in? USB storage should work on *every* distro, but not all will automatically mount the device.I did a cat and it (busbi) was present. I tried mount but was told it does not exist in /etc/fstab.
The light on the stick should stay on when the stick is plugged in not merely flash. So this looks to me like a hotplug/ auto mounting issue. I had a similar problem with my stick. Plug the stick in, open a console and type lsusb This should show the stick listed with the other usb devices on your system. If it aint there then look in etc/hotplug/usb to see if you have a file called usb-storage and it's executable. Also look at etc/modules to see if the usb-storage module is listed there. As others have pointed out etc/fstab should contain the following line /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 vfat user, noauto, umask=0 0 0 If I have the time I'll try to post the modified usb-storage script I used to get auto mounting/hotplugging working on my system. But as I'm moving house very soon don't expect an immediate reply. Keith -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html