On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 7:49 AM, BiX <[email protected]> wrote:
> Although the minicom shows "sdb: sdb1" when I plug in the thumb drive,
> it does not appear under mount.
> Mounting manually does not help either, "mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/

try "mount -t vfat /dev/block/sdb1 /mnt/'

Regards,
Amit Pundir

> usb" tells me that I do not have a file or directory under that name
> even after I manually created the folders.
> I've tried adding "dev_mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb vfat
> user,noauto,uid=1000,rw,noexec,sync,noatime 0 0" to vold.fstab and run
> vold from android shell but nothing occurred?
>
> On Apr 8, 2:55 pm, Amit Pundir <[email protected]> wrote:
>> *Mounting the drive:*
>> Either do it manually by running "mount" command from Android shell or
>> use "vold" to automount the drive.
>>
>> Way to use "vold" is to add the sysfs entry of the drive in
>> /system/etc/vold.fstab and run "vold" from Android shell. You can also
>> automate this procedure by using "on device-added-*" trigger in
>> init.rc and start "vold" whenever your drive get added.
>>
>> Sadly I couldn't find a way to do hot plug and play. sysfs entry of
>> your drive changes if you unplug the card and plug it back in. Because
>> of that "vold" wont be able to mount your drive and only option
>> available is to mount it manually or reboot.
>>
>> *Browsing through the media on the mounted drive:*
>> You need to browse through the files from any of the available file
>> managers[1] because your device won't be mounted as External Storage
>> and won't be auto scanned for media files.
>>
>> Hope it will help.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Amit Pundir
>>
>> [1]http://www.lysesoft.com/products/andexplorer/http://www.mydroid.info/android-apps/ghost-commander-file-manager-v1-33/
>>
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>>
>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:00 AM, BiX <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I plugged in my thumb drive to a usb hub connected to Beagleboard
>> > running Gingerbread and minicom shows that the device is recognized as
>> > shown below:
>>
>> > usb 1-2.3: new high speed USB device using ehci-omap and address
>> > 4
>> > usb 1-2.3: New USB device found, idVendor=0781,
>> > idProduct=5567
>> > usb 1-2.3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
>> > SerialNumber=3
>> > usb 1-2.3: Product: Cruzer
>> > Blade
>> > usb 1-2.3: Manufacturer:
>> > SanDisk
>> > usb 1-2.3: SerialNumber:
>> > 20044318630C8D218CFD
>> > scsi1 : usb-storage
>> > 1-2.3:1.0
>> > scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access     SanDisk  Cruzer Blade     1.00 PQ: 0
>> > ANSI: 2
>> > sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type
>> > 0
>> > sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 15625216 512-byte logical blocks: (8.00 GB/7.45
>> > GiB)
>> > sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is
>> > off
>> > sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write
>> > through
>> > sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write
>> > through
>>
>> > sdb:
>>
>> > sdb1
>> > sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write
>> > through
>> > sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
>>
>> > However, executing a mount does not show the device:
>>
>> > # mount
>> > rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
>> > /dev/root / ext3 rw,relatime,errors=continue,data=writeback 0 0
>> > tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755 0 0
>> > devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,mode=600 0 0
>> > proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
>> > sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
>> > tmpfs /mnt/asec tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
>> > tmpfs /mnt/obb tmpfs rw,relatime,mode=755,gid=1000 0 0
>> > /dev/block/vold/179:1 /mnt/sdcard vfat
>> > rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0702,dmask=
>> >  
>> > 0702,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,ut
>> >  f8,errors=remount-
>> > ro 0 0
>> > /dev/block/vold/179:1 /mnt/secure/asec vfat
>> > rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0702,dmask=
>> >  
>> > 0702,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,ut
>> >  f8,errors=remount-
>> > ro 0 0
>> > tmpfs /mnt/sdcard/.android_secure tmpfs ro,relatime,size=0k,mode=000 0
>> > 0
>>
>> > # df
>> > Filesystem             Size   Used   Free   Blksize
>> > /                        3G   184M     3G   4096
>> > /                        3G   184M     3G   4096
>> > /dev                   120M    44K   120M   4096
>> > /mnt/asec              120M     0K   120M   4096
>> > /mnt/obb               120M     0K   120M   4096
>> > /mnt/sdcard             69M     4M    65M   512
>> > /mnt/secure/asec        69M     4M    65M   512
>>
>> > Am I missing any modules or steps? I've built all the SCSI modules
>> > already and usb mass storage.
>>
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