red hat 9 and usb- can anyone help me?

jammybuns

Hi,
Does anyone know how I can get red hat 9 to mount my usb pen drive?

BenH

USB mass storage can be a little tricky, check the manufacturers site for any specific drivers you might need and make sure the pen is in the port during the hardware scan on boot.

If neither work, then its new kernel time - 2.6 has quite a few refinements in this area.

Best,

Ben

longword

Try 'modprobe usb-storage' and see if you can mount /dev/sda, /dev/sda1, or /dev/sda4 (assuming it's preformatted). The device should be listed in /proc/scsi/scsi when the usb-storage module is loaded.

BenH

Not knowing RH all that well, but wouldn't the module be loaded if/when the pen is detected during the hardware scan?

Best,

Ben

longword

Originally posted by BenH
Not knowing RH all that well, but wouldn't the module be loaded if/when the pen is detected during the hardware scan?

Typically the module will be loaded automagically when the device is plugged in. That's how it works with my USB external hard disk, and my firewire external hard disk (it loads the sbp2 module). You still have to mount the device yourself though. And fdisk/mkfs it if it's blank.

theciscokid

try

su

mount -t vfat /dev/sda /dev/usb

longword

Originally posted by theciscokid
mount -t vfat /dev/sda /dev/usb

You might want to reconsider that mount point.

jammybuns

I had already tried

mount -t auto /dev/sda /mnt/usbHd

but it complained that it couldn't determine the file system...

jammybuns

actually here is the error message i got :

[root@localhost conor]# mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/usbhd/
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
or too many mounted file systems
[root@localhost conor]# mount -t ntfs /dev/sda /mnt/usbhd/
mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel

i've tried reformatting my usb pen drive under win2000 using fat, fat32 and ntfs and then trying to mount it but it hasn't worked still...

any ideas anyone?

longword

Originally posted by jammybuns
i've tried reformatting my usb pen drive under win2000 using fat, fat32 and ntfs and then trying to mount it but it hasn't worked still...

Windows probably puts a partition table on it so you'd want to try mounting /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda4 instead. Alternatively you could try formatting the thing in Linux yourself. fdisk -l /dev/sda should tell you what partitions are on it already. If you create a partition with a type number 'c' (as opposed to 83 for Linux Native) you can format that with mkdosfs. Or you could leave it Linux and format with mke2fs.

sisob

redhat does automounting of usb decices. Plug in the drive and then do 'cat /etc/fstab' as root and see if there is an entry for the device at the bottom.

Kai

the pen drive should probably be left at FAT rather than FAT32 depending on the size. i had some problems with mine which was 128 mb. Try :
mount -t vfat /dev/sci0 /mnt/usb
or
mount -t vfat /dev/sci1 /mnt/usb

its been a while since i did that and im not sure the sci0 and sci1 are correct. someone else might know that bit but it worked for me and i was getting the same bad superblock errors.

jammybuns

i got it sorted...

the device was being picked up (according to /etc/sysconfig/hwconf) as /dev/sda which was giving me the error when i tried to mount it...

but when i tried /dev/sda1, it worked...

thanks for all the help everyone...