I'll re-read the recent thread about USB drives and hotplug, and see if I can sort this out once and for all - just in case it changes again.
Douglas Royds wrote:
Modest victory! I have just succeeded in mounting the shared partition, so the problem wasn't with the vfat module. That one was a problem with my brain.
I do have the usb-storage, vfat, msdos and fat modules loaded, so I think that bit's all sorted:
usb-storage 58528 0
usb-ohci 16296 0 (unused)
usbcore 52908 1 [usb-storage usb-ohci]
scsi_mod 85412 6 (autoclean) [st sr_mod sg usb-storage ide-scsi sd_mod]
ide-core 93980 5 (autoclean) [usb-storage ide-scsi ide-cd ide-detect sis5513 ide-disk]
vfat 8908 0 (autoclean)
fat 28152 0 (autoclean) [msdos vfat]
There exists the following line in my /etc/fstab:
proc /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs devuid=0,devgid=106,devmode=0660 0 0
And in /etc/mtab:
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
These probably have something to do with the digital camera - I can download photos from the camera, it's only the USB drive that I'm having trouble with.
David Kirk wrote:
Douglas,
Can you remind me what the command is to see all your partitions, and the types that the system thinks they are? I thought it was fdisk -l, but that returned silence.
On my SuSE 9.1 box under my desk, I did a lsmod > before and the plugged in
a usb key. I mounted it and did lsmod > after. Here is a diff of before
and after:
kahlua:~ # diff before after 1a2,6
nls_utf8 2304 1 nls_cp437 6016 1 vfat 14208 1 fat 43584 1 vfat usb_storage 60096 1
15c20 < sd_mod 20224 0 ---
sd_mod 20224 2
17c22 < scsi_mod 108876 4 sg,st,sd_mod,sr_mod ---
scsi_mod 108876 5 usb_storage,sg,st,sd_mod,sr_mod
48c53 < usbcore 103644 4 usbserial,uhci_hcd ---
usbcore 103644 5 usb_storage,usbserial,uhci_hcd
50c55 < subfs 7424 2 ---
subfs 7424 3
As you can see it has loaded usb_storage, fat and vfat.
Fdisk shows this:
kahlua:~ # fdisk -l /dev/sda
Disk /dev/sda: 16 MB, 16384000 bytes 2 heads, 32 sectors/track, 500 cylinders Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 499 15952 1 FAT12
I hope this helps.
Later
David Kirk
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