Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5100 mails)

[Alex <alex@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 22 June 2004 10:36, Luca Mollica wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to use my SONY USB 128M memory stick under Linux, but after
> trying to use the instructions posted by Silviu on 14th of June I had to
> stop suddendly because of this error reported in dmesg:
>
> I/O recognition error: maybe there is no medium inserted in the drive
>
> even if lights are on in the stick itself.
> Using the command
>
> # mount
>
> I get no line for the medium I would like to set up for USB storage, so I
> suppose that the USB device is not automounted or recognised on the fly.
> Do you have any suggestion about fixing the problem? Please not that I use
> a USB modem without any problem ....
>
> Thanx in advance
>
> L
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 10:36, Luca Mollica wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am trying to use my SONY USB 128M memory stick under Linux, but after
> trying to use the instructions posted by Silviu on 14th of June I had to
> stop suddendly because of this error reported in dmesg:
>
> I/O recognition error: maybe there is no medium inserted in the drive
>
> even if lights are on in the stick itself.
> Using the command
>
> # mount
>
> I get no line for the medium I would like to set up for USB storage, so I
> suppose that the USB device is not automounted or recognised on the fly.
> Do you have any suggestion about fixing the problem? Please not that I use
> a USB modem without any problem ....
>
> Thanx in advance
>
> L
In a shell (root):
Try lsub (as root) and it should show something about your stick.
So your Stick is recognized.
Then try (as root) mount /dev/sda1  /mnt.


Change to /mnt and you should see something.

If this doesn't work, feel free to ask again :-)

Al