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[Richard Carlson <>]

Hi Scott;

Hum, What kind of filesystem is on that USB drive?  The one I use with my 
WinXP system has a vfat fs.  So can get write access if you specify a 
different fstype?

Rich

At 09:34 AM 8/28/2006, Scott Fringer wrote:
> Richard;
>   Alas, dmesg is empty and messages and syslog have no entries
> pertaining to any USB drives being mounted.
>   I followed your steps given to Clarke, and while it *appears* to have
> mounted the drive (I was required to supply a fstype to the mount
> command - and chose usbfs) - but I cannot write to the device.  Again,
> the USB drive is connected prior to powering on the system.
>
> Scott
>
> Richard Carlson wrote:
> > Hi Scott;
> >
> > OK, make sure that sda1 is the right drive.  Look at the message log or
> > use the dmesg command to find out what drive is actually installed.  For
> > example, on my home system with multiple USB ports plugging a drive into
> > the front port gets me
> > usb 1-8: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
> > usb 1-8: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> > scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> > usb-storage: device found at 4
> > usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
> >   Vendor: LEXAR     Model: JUMPDRIVE ELITE   Rev: 1000
> >   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
> > SCSI device sdg: 252928 512-byte hdwr sectors (129 MB)
> > sdg: Write Protect is off
> > sdg: Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
> > sdg: assuming drive cache: write through
> > SCSI device sdg: 252928 512-byte hdwr sectors (129 MB)
> > sdg: Write Protect is off
> > sdg: Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
> > sdg: assuming drive cache: write through
> >  sdg: sdg1
> > sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdg
> > sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg6 type 0
> > usb-storage: device scan complete
> > SELinux: initialized (dev sdg1, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts
> >
> > So I the drive is now sdg1 not sda1.  A properly functioning automount
> > system would simplify this.  .-)
> >
> > Rich

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