On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 01:20:57AM -0500, Rob Sherwood wrote: > The cannonical place to start is : > http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/book1.html > I don't know what kernel version comes with Mandrake 8.1, but if it is older > then > 2.2.27 (according to the howto) you are sol :-(
USB flash disk devices on "modern" kernels are detected and treated as part of the SCSI subsystem. Try: plugging in the USB device looking at the last few lines of output from dmesg running modprobe -v usb-storage if you do not see anything about usb-storage looking again at the last few lines of output from dmesg waiting about 30 seconds running: dmesg | grep sd If you see something like: SCSI device sdb: 2015232 512-byte hdwr sectors (1032 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off sdb: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00 sdb: assuming drive cache: write through sdb: sdb1 (which is what I see when I plug in my USB disk) then you can issue mount -o noatime /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb assuming that you want the disk mounted on /mnt/usb and that the directory exists. Correct as required, based upon what dmesg tells you. Ben -- Ben Stern UNIX & Networks Monkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] This post does not represent FTI, even if I claim it does. Neener neener. UM Linux Users' Group Electromagnetic Networks Microbrew Software
