Are you using devfs or something like that? I'm not use to the /dev/ you point to below. What do you kernel logs show?
On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Ayman Asadi wrote: > Hi, > I need assistance on mounting a vfat formatted usb flash device on an > embedded linux (2.4.20 kernel on mips32 processor). I enabled the scsi > support, vfat, fat, and msdos file systems, usb and usb-storage during > the kernel build. I can see that the device is being enumerated. > > The system creates the directory /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0 > which contains the disc file. If I cat the disc file I can see the LED > on the drive blinking and garbage printed to the screen. > > As I read in the docs, I tried to mount the drive as follows: > > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash > > The /dev/sda does not exist (/dev/sda1 does not exist) and if I created > it with > > mknod /dev/sda1 b 8 1 > > things dn't work. > > I tried the command: > > mount -t vfat /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0 /mnt/flash > > I get the error message: > "mount: Mounting /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0 on /mnt/flash > failed: Block device required" > > Also, I tried the command: > > mount -t vfat /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc /mnt/flash > > I got the error message: > "mount: Mounting /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0 on /mnt/flash > failed: Invalid argument" > > Anyone has a pointer to a document to solve this problem? > > Regards, > > Ayman Asadi > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > Linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net > To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users > -- /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy | SLAC, MailStop 34, | |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road, | |http://calendar.yahoo.com/gowdy | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA | |EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +1 650 926 3144 | \------------------------------------+-------------------------/ ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
