[ILUG] USB mass storage woes

[Paul O'Malley]

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 16:26, 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
> 
> either hangs (there's no output and the process can't be killed) or
> reports that /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device. The actual device is
> there though, and in HardDrake's hardware listing is classed as a
> hard-drive. Trying to configure it from there though, just ends up me
> being given my hda partition table with no other devices to choose from.

Perhaps this will help, I had a simular issue with a Mustec camera it
worked for me after I let mandrake find it on boot up and auto detect it
and a usb fob.

It can now be seen and even presents itself on the desktop .
file:/mnt/removable2/dcim/100media
The same issue with a USB key 
file:/mnt/removable
So if you attach the full camera (do not take out the card when the
camera is attached to the computer :-)) 
It complained the first time it detected the usb mounted fob but now I
can use it no problem.

Regards,

Paul