Thanks a lot! The disk was under /dev/block although I don't know why
it changed to sda1 instead.
Do you know how to mount a usb flash drive with emulated cdrom?
Mounting it would only return 'Mount: Read-only file system' D:

On Apr 11, 6:34 pm, Amit Pundir <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>
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>
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>
> > 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/...
>
> >> 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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