Re: Problems mounting USB memory stick

[David Merriman]

if you boot with a disk in the zip, doing the second one (only) will do;
when booting without a disk in linux is unable to load the partition table 
from the device and your first mount attempt forces it.

for the usb drive I'd stick to the plain /dev/sdX device (no partition table number)
and double check if for some reson an sdb or sdc node is created instead of sda
try something like this:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /proc/scsi/scsi            
Attached devices: 
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
 Vendor: Sony     Model: MSC-U03          Rev: 1.00
 Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02

that scsi1 tells me that I expect to find the memory stick on /dev/sda; scsi2 would mean /dev/sdb etc...

cheers
--
Delio
 

This is the output from /proc/scsi/scsi with the memory stick plugged in:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] david]$ cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
 Vendor: ATAPI    Model: CD-R/RW 24X10    Rev: P.JJ
 Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
 Vendor: Generic  Model: USB Flash Disk   Rev: 1.00
 Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
[EMAIL PROTECTED] david]$
However, there's still nothing appearing in /dev/sd*

Dave

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