Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question

[robin]

et wrote:

On Saturday 15 February 2003 09:18 pm, Sharrea wrote:

On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 08:09, robin wrote:

Jerry Barton wrote:

you may need to modprobe usb-storage (i have to for my digital camera
since the memory card on it is seen as usb mass storage device).  I
don't know much about digital video cameras so i'm not sure if that's
how it'll be recognized. also look in mandrake control center's
hardware / hardware list and see if you can see it listed there
(possibly under other/unknown) and see if there's any info about it.
then you need to find out what the /dev entry is (i don't remember for
the life of me where i've seen how and haven't added hardware in so
long i forgot)

Anyone?  how DO you know what /dev entry hardware uses?

not sure what kind of filesystem it'd use but i'd venture a guess that
it's vfat if it's a mass storage device that windoze reads.

now for my camera i'd (as root)

mkdir /mnt/camera
modprobe usb-storage
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera

Mounting with -t vfat doesn't work ("mount: wrong fs type, bad option,
badsuperblock on /dev/sda, or too many mounted file systems") and -t
auto sulks and asks me to specify the file type (same result as when I
tried John's solution).  It ain't msdos either - any ideas?

Sir Robin

I may be way outta line here but:
if /mnt is not a separate partition, but on your / partition, wouldn't you
have to mount using the filesystem that your / partition is (ie. ext2, ext3
or whatever)?

I would think that to use vfat you would have to make the mountpoint on a
partition that is formatted vfat.

Just a thought...

Sharrea

ahhh, the mount point is not formated, the partition is formated if it is a "block device" (a drive) but there is no formating the /dev or /proc (etc) partitions. the mount point tells the OS what filesystem module (?driver? for win-types) the kernel should use to read the filesystem.

That's pretty much it (well, it's the mount command, not the mount point, but that's splitting hairs). My problem is that I can't get it to do this.

Of course if Windows were as transparent as Linux, I could just look at how Windows does it. Some hope!

Sir Robin

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Robin Turner
IDMYO
Bilkent Univeritesi
Ankara 06533
Turkey

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