On Fri, 20 May 2005, Guillaume Blanc wrote: > Hi, > > I've bought an USB flash drive (Kingston Datatraveler II Plus). I > thought that a simple "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbkey" under root was enough > to play with the stuff. But no. It says: > mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device > > I'm fighting for (a too long) while to try to figure out how to acceed the > drive. > > Note it works perfectly on my laptop running an old Mandrake 9. The > problem comes on my desktop running RH9... > > I have no idea of what to do to make that stuff working. Any idea would be > very welcome. Many thanks in advance!
To get more information, turn on the USB Mass Storage verbose debugging option in the kernel configuration and rebuild the usb-storage driver. Then post the system log or dmesg output showing what happens when you plug in the flash drive. Probably the detailed debugging info will show where the problem is. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7412&alloc_id=16344&op=click _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
