Hello all, I've noticed some more strangeness with USB removable storage on SuSE 9.0 .. Every time I mount a USB removable storage by doing "mount /media/sda1" or "/sda2" or whatever, I reboot and the mountpoints are still there? If I do "umount /media/sda1" the label is still stuck in /media! I don't get it .. Also, I mounted a couple other coworkers USB devices and one came up with four empty partitions, hdb1 through hdb4, with no files, even though he had files on it - FAT formatted. Another coworkers USB device appeared to mount halfway in the dmesg output and then nothing. I'm reinstalling SuSE now from an image. Is this quirkiness with USB removable storage normal? It's very frustrating! -----Original Message----- From: Basil Chupin [mailto:blchupin@tpg.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 8:48 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Where is my USB removable storage in SuSE 9.0? dreadnought wrote:
I just attached my USB removable storage (256mb Soyo CigarPro) to a Gateway 200ARC notebook running SuSE 9.0.
The dmesg output shows it recognized and "attached" as scsi1.
I've looked in /mnt and /media and I don't see any scsi1. I tried "mount /mnt/scsi1" and "mount /media/scsi1" and neither worked.
Any ideas? Most distros either automatically mount this device or it comes up when I do a "mount /mnt/removable" or "mount /mnt/sda1" .. Which I've also tried in SuSE 9.0 to no avail.
Thanks,
Mark
It should be under /media/sda1 (or sda4) and you would mount it as mount /media/sda1(4). Is it by any chance a USB 2.0 device (and not the 'old' 1.1)? If it is then it will be more than likely sda4 (and if you try to mount is as anything other than sda4 your system may freeze -- been there, done that). And don't forget to first format it as FAT (on the assumption that you will be also using it for "that OTHER" OS. Cheers. -- All Scottish food is based on a dare. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com