On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 08:22:47PM +0000, Olav Selseng Vestreim wrote: > Hello everyone! > > I have trouble entering a GPS tracker (work), which is recognised as a device > at /dev/ttyACM0; trying to mount it, I get an error: 'ttyACM0 is not a block > device'. > > Any suggestions on this issue? >
As the error message says, you can't mount it, since ttyACM0 is a *character* device, and not a *block* device. Block devices _might_ need to be mounted (attached to a piece of filesystem), since I/O is based on chunks and is usually buffered, while character devices normally work "straight away", since I/O is meant to be synchronous. Usually, GPS trackers are accessed through a serial protocol (simple ASCII commands), and normally this protocol is already "spoken" by the software you use to access the GPS tracks. HND KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - GLUGCT -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
