USB 'disk drives'

ken at flyingtoasters.net ken at flyingtoasters.net
Thu Nov 7 17:49:50 EST 2002


> I'd love to setup the thing to automount but can't do that if I can't
> mount  it at all! Has anyone already wrestled this alligator and figured
> out how  to use it? If not I'll dive into research mode and learn more
> about using  USB things with Linux.

Weellll...  generally, mount is "smart" enough to know which type of
filesystem to use.  Assuming you've tried both "vfat" and "msdos", and
neither has worked, I begin to wonder if your kernel is compiled with
support for them.  Do you have a custom kernel?  Have you tried manually
insmod-ing vfat.o, and then mounting?  If you have a custom kernel, I do
suggest you check and make sure that you had "msdos" or "vfat" selected
when you compiled.  If in doubt, compile a new one.  The hard part with
USB devices is getting the system to recognize them; after that, it's
generally pretty easy.  Lastly, though, I suggest doing an "fdsik
/dev/sda", and making sure it's "sda" you want, and not, say, "sda1"
(though based on experience, what you're going with is generally right).

$.02,

-Ken





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