[ILUG] USB mass storage woes

[Marek McGann]

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 16:45, Kae Verens wrote:
> Marek McGann wrote:
> 
> >Picked up a nice new Philips "wearable audio" mp3 key, but having a
> >nightmare trying to mount it under Mandrake 10.0.
> >
> >mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

> you haven't told the computer what fs type to use
> 
> try:
> mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
> 
> or if that doesn't work:
> mount -t msdos /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
 

Thanks, but either leads to the same "hanging" behaviour.

Once I've tried mounting once, anything that involves scanning the usb
sockets seems to hang in a similar fashion also - this means that the
Mandrake Control Centre won't start, cdrecord's scanbus gets stumped,
and trying cat /proc/scsi/scsi gives the same no-output-no-exit result.