USB stick

Gilion · 12-28-2003, 11:39 AM

A short windows question at linuxquestions... I know shoot me, but here people actually understand computers:

Which command(s) mounts F: at an usb stick in windows 98 se?

At boot my usb stick is loaded correctly, it appears as a removable disc. Plugging it after boot doesn't make the device visible, so no correct PnP performance. I'm looking for an easy work-around instead of rebooting my rather old and slow laptop.

mcleodnine · 12-28-2003, 12:43 PM

Have you tried updating/refreshing the Device Manager page?

Gilion · 12-28-2003, 12:48 PM

Yep, that doesn't work. Refreshing in My Computer screen doesn't do the trick as well.

mcleodnine · 12-28-2003, 01:02 PM

Wild guessing now...

You may want to see if there's an executable running that manages your USB stick. Find it and kill it, then start it again.

d4d4n9 · 12-28-2003, 06:50 PM

Please let me chipped in to this thread.
I had similar problem with my pen drive. Unless I connected it to USB port before booting, I can not access it even as root. How do I make it to connect like PnP in windoze. Any setting for automount in fstab ?
Thanks in advance.

Pres · 12-29-2003, 10:51 PM

under windows 98 you will need a driver for that (not in the driver database that comes with the os) . You install a driver ?

Gilion · 12-30-2003, 04:55 AM

I did install the driver shipped with the usb-stick. Otherwise even detection at boottime would be impossible under windows 98 SE.

Some new info. After booting with any stick in the usb port, all installed usb sticks work like real plug and play. I can plug and replug different sticks without any problem. Again without a stick in the usb port at boottime, non of the sticks gets detected like a plug and play device.