[PLUG] USB mounting

AthlonRob AthlonRob at axpr.net
Wed Feb 2 16:19:36 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 07:45 -0800, Bill Spears wrote:
> I need to mount a usb film reader on Fedora 3 system. Here's what we
> know:
> 1. Yesterday it worked automatically. When I plugged the USB cable into
> the computer, an icon appeared, much like a CDROM icon and I was able to
> access the media thru that. Today nothing.
> 2. I tried "mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 ~me/camera_film/" and it replied
> "mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist".  I also tried sdai for
> i=2...4.
> 
> What else can I try?

'tis hard to say... what does dmesg say when you plug the device in?  It
usually will tell you exactly where to mount it from.

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