On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 21:06:19 -0800 Rob Blomquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sunday 05 February 2006 7:50 pm, Andrew Sackville-West so eloquently
> stated:
> On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 20:42:09 -0700
>
>
> > > 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
> >
> > OK, just in case: Do you actually have a device
> > special file /dev/sdb1?
> >
> > Just askin' . . .
> >
> > > 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!
> >
> > Maybe because the error message from mount is correct? That
> > "special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist?"
>
> >do you have udev rules to create the device?
>
> Good question.
>
> This is what is in my udev.rules:
>
> # USB devices
> BUS="usb", KERNEL="hiddev*", NAME="usb/%k"
> BUS="usb", KERNEL="auer[0-9]*", NAME="usb/%k"
> BUS="usb", KERNEL="legousbtower*", NAME="usb/%k"
> BUS="usb", KERNEL="dabusb*", NAME="usb/%k"
> BUS="usb", KERNEL="cpad[0-9]*", NAME="usb/%k"
> BUS="usb", KERNEL="lp[0-9]*", NAME="usb/%k"
> BUS="usb", KERNEL="ttyUSB*", SYSFS{product}="Palm Handheld*", SYMLINK="pilot"
>
> Now, I am not sure which of these would be used for a flash drive, but I can
> tell that a few won't be....
look in /etc/udev/rules.d/050_hal* and see what that says. That is the rule
that creates sd* devices.
A
>
> Rob
>
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