Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (5100 mails)

[Luca Mollica <luca_mollica@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 23 June 2004 15:14, Luis Angel Fernández Cuadrado wrote:
> El Miércoles, 23 de Junio de 2004 13:04, Luca Mollica escribió:
> > > In a shell (root):
> > > Try lsub (as root) and it should show something about your stick.
> >
> > The stick is recognised as USB SONY memory stick
> >
> > > So your Stick is recognized.
> >
> > Yes, it is.
> >
> > > Then try (as root) mount /dev/sda1  /mnt.
> >
> > No way!
> > The kernel message is the same about missing medium in the drive.
> > Do I have to check something more about SCSI ?
> > The usb-storage module is loaded.
>
> Is support for the vfat filisystem loaded? (Otherwise, try 'modprobe vfat')

I have not checked yet, but I can recognize a fat32 partition that is shared 
between WXP and Linux, and vfat is used in mounting the partition itself.

>
> You can also try 'mount -t vfat /dev/sdax /mnt' where x = 4 (sometimes) or
> even '/dev/sda' alone. My Sony Memory Sticks have behaved in strange ways
> since SuSE 7.2.

It does not work with mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt, I will check for other 
number ....

L


>
> Hope it helps.
>
> > LM
> >
> > > Change to /mnt and you should see something.
> > >
> > > If this doesn't work, feel free to ask again :-)
> > >
> > > Al
>
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