[PLUG] USB mounting

Bill Spears bspears at easystreet.com
Wed Feb 2 19:15:04 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 12:22 -0600, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
> # The following was supposedly scribed by
> # Bill Spears
> # on Wednesday 02 February 2005 09:45 am:
> 
> >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.
> 
> Are you using udev? (not sure if that matters)
> 
> With my smartmedia reader, I have to unplug the device and plug it 
> back in (with the card in it) after I umount it.  You might find 
> that /dev/sda exists, but not /dev/sda1.
> 
> The device getting plugged-in triggers a kernel event, but changing 
> the card doesn't, so the partition goes away.  Aside from physically 
> plugging the device, the following two commands (issued by root) get 
> the partition to appear again.
> 
>   fdisk -l /dev/sda
>   blockdev --rereadpt /dev/sda
> 
> --Eric

Follow up.
Now it's working.  Who knows.
mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 ~me/camera_film
works on all the USB slots.  However, it takes about ten seconds for the
little USB icon to appear. Again, who knows.
-- 
Bill Spears <bspears at easystreet.com>




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