On Sunday 05 February 2006 3:13 pm, Marc Wilson so eloquently stated: > On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:30:01PM -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > <much silliness deleted> > > > Ok from all this, I wonder if the drive is corrupt. It is connected. Why > > can't I manually mount it? > > Because you're trying to mount the block device, rather than a partition on > it. Example: > > rei $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdf > > Disk /dev/sdf: 519 MB, 519569408 bytes > 129 heads, 32 sectors/track, 245 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 4128 * 512 = 2113536 bytes
OK, I know what you mean about mounting the block device, I tried sdb0, 1, and 2, but got no response before I emailed. timmy:~# dmesg | tail usb 3-5: new high speed USB device using address 32 scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: PNY Model: USB 2.0 FD Rev: 1.13 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 SCSI device sdb: 487424 512-byte hdwr sectors (250 MB) sdb: assuming Write Enabled sdb: assuming drive cache: write through /dev/scsi/host7/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi7, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 USB Mass Storage device found at 32 So it is still there, and let me find out what it responds to: timmy:~# fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 249 MB, 249561088 bytes 16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 952 cylinders Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 952 243696 6 FAT16 Ah, so it is vfat on sdb1! no sweat! timmy:~# mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/flash mount: special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist Now this is silly! Is it still there? timmy:~# fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 249 MB, 249561088 bytes 16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 952 cylinders Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 952 243696 6 FAT16 I will be darned. Still there, but mount can't find it! > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdf1 1 246 507376 4 FAT16 <32M > Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings: > phys=(249, 128, 32) logical=(245, 106, 32) > > rei $ mount | grep sdf > /dev/sdf1 on /mnt/usbstick type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=mwilson) > > > Why doesn't something try to automount it for me? > > What would this "something" be? Have you installed something that would do > that for you? Are you using a recent Gnome or KDE that would do that by > default? No, I don't know in what version Gnome started doing that... I > don't use Gnome. Nor KDE, for that matter. Yes, that something is automount. Under Mandriva and Ubuntu, it seems to be working quite well, especially for flash drives. I find it more of a pain to deal with for USB drives, to find out what block device it is then mount it if it could have a static device for each usb drive, well that would be one thing, and I would be fine mounting and unmounting them like CDROMs. I have been quite confused with the changes to USB that the 2.6 kernel gives. Is automount available for Debian? Rob -- Mountlake Terrace, WA, USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
