[ILUG] USB mass storage woes

[Marek McGann]

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 18:36, Paul O'Malley wrote: 
> 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.

Managed, after some wrangling, to get Mandrake to auto-detect it, and I
now have an icon on my desktop claiming there's a storage device mounted
at /mnt/removable. Problem is the storage device is 0 B in size. The
device that's mounted is: 

/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1

There is a /dev/sda1 now, but mount claims it's not a valid block
device.

Also tried Rick's suggestion of just using /dev/sda, but same story.

I tried the thing on my Fedora Core 1 system at home yesterday evening
and it worked first time with no problem ("mount -t vfat /dev/sda1
/mnt/usb"). Thought it might be a kernel issue so - a few sites
suggested upgrading to kernel 2.6.7. Have just done that, to no avail,
everything still appears to be not working in the same way.

Ho hum.

Thanks for your help though.