On 4/29/05, Colin Carter wrote:
Hi, Sorry to bother you but I am confused about usb connections. My Anypak 20GB drive auto-connected whenever I plugged it in. That is to say, Konqueror auto-openned a new window showing the top directory of the drive. This morning it suddenly refuses to open; and the entry which SuSE had previously automatically entered into /media has gone. The only "reason/cause" I can think of is my attempting to get my scanner working, but I don't think I touched anything around my drive entry. My fstab is:
/dev/hde2 / reiserfs /dev/hdf2 /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hde1 swap swap pri=42 0 0 /dev/hdf1 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs (snip) /dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs (snip) /dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs (snip) /dev/sda /media/anypak vfat noauto,user 0 0
Related: My 64 MB flash stick does not auto-load now, and could not connect via the /media directory; however after booting while plugged in this drive became visible, but not the 20GB Anypak.
I already feel guilty that I've stuffed up something :-( Thanks for any helpful pointers. Colin
When troubleshooting any of the usb automount stuff, I look at the end of the dmesg output. dmesg displays a kernel memory buffer full of logs. I would plug in your device, wait 60 seconds, then type "dmesg". In the last 10 lines or so, you should see some USB / SCSI recognition stuff. With 9.2 I often see the device recognized as /dev/sda, but nothing shows up in /media. I just manually mount the device "mount /dev/sda /mnt" or whatever mount point you like. My inference is that the automount logic in 9.2 is nice feature-wise, but unreliable. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century