On Friday 22 July 2011 17:45:32 Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:51:18 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > I am wanting to mount a Daisy/MP3** player as a block device to get > > access to the files on it. dmesg* lists it, but I am not succeeding in > > finding its device name. It did once mount itself (or rather, I imagine > > that HAL mounted it) but I cannot get this behaviour to repeat. > > > > *Tux:/home/lisi# dmesg | grep usb > > (...) > > Better "dmesg | tail -n 30" to get the latest full 30 lines :-)
Bingo! Thanks, Camaleón! On Friday 22 July 2011 17:33:42 Claudius Hubig wrote: > What does > > ls -l /dev/sd* lisi@Tux:~$ ls -l /dev/sd* brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 2011-07-22 08:18 /dev/sda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 2011-07-22 08:19 /dev/sda1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 2011-07-22 08:18 /dev/sdb brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 17 2011-07-22 08:18 /dev/sdb1 My /home (sda) and /backup (sdb) > say? Does it turn up in $(lsusb)? No! Tux:/home/lisi# lsusb Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub > Which other tools (HAL, udev, > specific desktop environments) are you using which could interfere > with the mounting? udev on Lenny running KDE 3.5.10. I thought I had HAL, but can't seem to find it. I actually ran your tests before Camaleón's - but hers cracked it. Thanks, both! Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201107221831.22686.lisi.re...@gmail.com