hi all,

i have a 16gb flash drive that i can not see in suse. i know the drive works fine in windows with no problems. any help would be appreciated.
i think my drive works in suse 32bit but not 64bit. please help

thanks

Is it formatted as fat32 or ntfs?
Insert card and type command ' dmesg ' to see if it sees it and see what it does. post anything related to that.

Brian

it is formatted as fat32

this is what i have

usb 3-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 3-3: Product: Flash Disk
usb 3-3: Manufacturer: USB2.0
usb 3-3: SerialNumber: 0000000012E6
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 2
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access USB2.0 Flash Disk 2.20 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 33075200 512-byte hardware sectors: (16.9GB/15.7GiB)
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 33075200 512-byte hardware sectors: (16.9GB/15.7GiB)
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sdb:
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
anthonycardinale@SUSELINUXLAPTOP:/bin>



thanks

anthony

i think SUSE should auto detect the usb drive. .. is your hal daemon ON?

if the flash disk is mounted and do df -h does it detect the drive?

Why do you say that? what have you looked for? Have you tried mounting it manually (and, for that matter, do you know that it hasn't been mounted automatically)?

how do i turn the hal daemon one?

how do i turn the hal daemon on?

im not sure what to look for. when i go into my computer its not there.

Insert the drive into your machine.
Then at the command prompt type:mount
This will show you if the drive is mounted(and where).It will also show the file system it's using.

Regards.
The trooper.

cd to /etc/rc.d/init.d -- if we have the same dir of the services

it says no such file or directory. can i do this from yast?

how do you check your current services that are running? (the location perhaps) i think your usb is detected but i cannot be mounted.. that was my problem before (though im using slackware) it can be dtected in the var/log/messages BUT i cannot mount it.. true enough someone replied that i dont have (distro feature) a hal and ntfs-3g package (since the usb HD is formatted through ntfs)