Hey I just bought a usb storage device and I want to know where linux mandrake 8.2 loads it up at.

Is there anything I need to do?

lsmod shows the module running for it, just dont know how to access it.

Mass storage USB devices are usually accessed as SCSI devices.
On Debian my USB storage is recognized as /dev/sda on whatever I want to mount it on.
Check your Mandrake docs for correct SCSI device name.
I was unable to access my storage on Mandrake 8.0 even though everything appeared correct. Don't have any idea if it was just me or Mandrake.
Good Luck.

make suer u have (at least some of) these modules loaded :

usb-ohci
usb-uhci (or uhci)
usbcore
usb-storage

do a lsmod and see if they are there

got it working guys,


It was under /dev/sda1

mkdir /mnt/usbdisk

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdisk


that was it.

Thanks for the info. I just bought a 128Meg Lexar Jump Drive and your procedure works great in RedHat 8.0. The procedure is reiterated below for completeness:

cd /mnt
mkdir usbdrive
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdisk
ls

Yep, I got the same JumpDrive you got..

Bit I would rather it be blue instead of purple.

I tried this myself and received the message "This device is not a block device."

I'm also having some trouble with just going to /mnt/ using Konquerer..it just freezes. I think it may because I don't have a working floppy disk drive on this box (but I have it so it doesn't mount unless explicitly commanded to now) but Konquerer still freezes when I try to access the /mnt/ directory.

But back to my aforementioned problem...I would also like to say I had an issue writing to my floppy disk drive for awhile, it would also say something like "This device is a block device" or "This device does not support this action" or something to that effect. But at least my zip drive was mounted, I can't even seem to get my Lexar 128 MB Jump Drive working.

Any ideas???

Thank you for your help!

-A

I am having the same problem as digitalis.
# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 usb
mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
# cdrecord -scanbus
...
..
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'HL-DT-ST' 'CD-RW GCE-8240B ' '1.06' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) *

(0,0,0) is a cdr/rw
I cant seem to load my usb storage device either, can anyone help?

I have the same problem of 'This is not a valid device"

Are you in root?