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

Tim Nicholson wrote:

dreadnought wrote:

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Hello all, [snip] 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 have found similar issues with USB flash memory (pen drives) 4 empty FAT partitions 3 of zero size and one the size of the drive, and unable to read or write to it, but fine under 'doze as a single partition. Reformatted as FAT under SuSe and it works fine now on both 'doze and SuSe.

Could you please be a bit more specific about how you formatted it (as FAT) under SuSE? I've looked at the Partitioner in Yast but seeing 4 SDA (1 - 4) partitions - quite apart from the main SDA partition - I am not sure which one to format or even if I should delete Sda 2, 3 and 4 and then format Sda1. So, would appreciate a bit of detail about how you did formatting. Cheers. -- All Scottish food is based on a dare.

Tim Nicholson wrote:

Basil Chupin wrote:

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Could you please be a bit more specific about how you formatted it (as FAT) under SuSE? I've looked at the Partitioner in Yast but seeing 4 SDA (1 - 4) partitions - quite apart from the main SDA partition - I am not sure which one to format or even if I should delete Sda 2, 3 and 4 and then format Sda1.

So, would appreciate a bit of detail about how you did formatting.

Cheers.

Trying to remember, it was a while ago!! used cfdisk I think! Try reading its man pages.

I took a deep breath and plunged in...... I did the formatting using the Partitioner in YaST. Because the flash still didn't behave as I expected, I used cfisk to format it as FAT - still without success re mounting it. However, all got resolved when dreadnoght provided the solution to my problem: put an entry into fstab. I did and it now all works :-).

However I have noticed that the latest updates included one which fixed a known bug in reading dos partiton tables. Since performing the update I have found no problems reading Windows formatted FAT pen drives!

Well, I check for updates at every logon so am up-to-date, and also using kernel 2.6.5-7, which is the very latest one, on the second computer (which is the one having hassles recognising the flash disk) and therefore I can't get any more up-to-date than that :-). Cheers. -- All Scottish food is based on a dare.