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Re: [LUG] Usb HDD




Mine is a Disgo USB pendrive and as I said in my previous 
mail it mounts not a problem in 2.4 kernels. I seem to 
remember Linux format having a couple of articles, one 
small one about USB cameras (just 1 page) which covered all 
I neeeded to mount my drive. And then one bigger cover 
article about general USB (both about 2/3 months ago).

How have you tried to mount the drive ?, i just use 
mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/usb. Are you getting any error 
messgaes in particular ?? and have you looked at the output 
from USBView ?

Hope this is a little bit of help


On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 08:04:27 -0000 Bob Sarah 
<wychcraft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have the same problem. On Mandrake 8.0 mount$ displays (amongst other
lines)
/proc/bus/usb on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw, devmode= 0664, devgid=43)
but that is as far as I can get.

At www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/admin/amount.html there is quite a lot of info
about mounting devices including removable media but nothing I could find
about usb connected drives.

The info by Brad Harts at  http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/book1.html is
informative but is about a year old (kernel rev 2.4.0-test9) and covers lots
of usb gadjets but not ours.

There are quite a few gadjets out there found on the net and no standard
name -
usb flash disc - www.cpc.co.uk
disc on a key - www.m-sys.com
Ours by Copera is called a usb hard drive disc and claims 'no driver is
required for Linux 2.4.0'

I phoned the mail order supplier and they are trying to find the Taiwan
maker's URL for me:-)

Let us know if you have solved the problem

----- Original Message -----
From: "lee quick" <leequick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 9:36 PM
Subject: [LUG] Usb HDD


Evening all has anyone had any experience with Usb drives, i have just
got hold of a 32meg pen drive but have no idea how to access it from
within linux?

The drive has been detected on my usb hub, and i have the required 2.4+
kernel needed for the drive but apart from knowing its there im a bit
lost as to what to put in the fstab file if i put anything in there at
all.

would normally try to solve this problem myself but several google
searches have come up blank.

any clues would be appreciated, going to see if my mainboard supports
booting from flash memory devices and if so will try to shove a linux
system onto the Usb drive! linux where ever i go :)



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