On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 00:51 +0700, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
> Got a new 2GB memory stick and found out that on my system the stick is 
> sometimes automatically recognized as /dev/sda1  but if I want to work with 
> it it tells me it does not exist. Mounting /dev/sda1 gives the same 
> information. Can somebody tell me how to force this USB stick to work on my 
> computer. Other USB products like a cardreader and a smaller USB stick (which 
> I do not have at hand at the moment) are working properly.
> What should I do?

Is it formatted?

Plug it in and check with "dmesg" if it was recognised and where/if it
was mounted.
When you have it mounted, you can right-click on it (assuming you are
using KDE, not sure abou Gnome) and under the "Mounting" tab you can
specify where it should be mounted in the future.

Hans
 



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