the manual says its plug and play in linux 2.4 or grater, windows xp and whatnot, and mac os 9.0

ive got it plugged but i cant ssem to play

how do i use this device?

ok

i consulted the manual, found the device (/dev/sda) and am attempting to mount it,
but:

[root@zeus mnt]# mount -t ext3 /dev/sda /mnt/usb_hd
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
or too many mounted file systems
[root@zeus mnt]#

i try do make a filesystem on /dev/sda but i cant, because mkfs isnt there:;

[root@zeus mnt]# mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda
bash: mkfs: command not found

why?
how do i work around this?

If your kernel is not compiled with SCSI support the device will not work.

The following shell session shows my setup. Note the device (/dev/sda1) may be different on your machine. /etc/sysconfig/hwconf theoretically should show the device name (sda1 or whatever it is). I think, however, it is only updated when you boot the machine with the device plugged in which I've never done before to find out if it works.

My device came with a preformatted 'vfat' partition, so you don't need to do mkfs. Your mkfs command only had failed because mkfs was not in your PATH. (try /sbin/mkfs). You probably want to stick with 'vfat' if you want to be able to use it in a windows machine.

FYI: I am running redhat linux 8.0, with 2.4.22-pre6 kernel, with SCSI supported.

I believe I only edited /etc/fstab to add /dev/sda1, and did mkdir /mnt/memstick as root

The disk size is reported correctly by df -k once the mounting is done.

The light flashes slowly after unmounting. I don't know what that means, please post if you find out what it is.

1 0 % cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=/usr/local /usr/local ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/memstick auto noauto,owner,user 0 0
2 0 % ls -ld /mnt/memstick /dev/sda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Aug 30 2002 /dev/sda1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root disk 4096 Dec 1 17:02 /mnt/memstick
3 0 % mount
/dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/hda3 on /home type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/hda5 on /usr/local type ext3 (rw)
/dev/cdrom on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,user=bob)
4 0 % whoami
bob
5 0 % mount /mnt/memstick/
6 0 % mount
/dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/hda3 on /home type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/hda5 on /usr/local type ext3 (rw)
/dev/cdrom on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,user=bob)
/dev/sda1 on /mnt/memstick type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=bob)
7 0 % cp ~/data/data.fin /mnt/memstick/
8 0 % umount /mnt/memstick/
9 0 % mount
/dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/hda3 on /home type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/hda5 on /usr/local type ext3 (rw)
/dev/cdrom on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,user=bob)
10 0 %

/var/log/messages shows:

Dec 1 17:47:34 smith kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:03.3-3, assigned address 3
Dec 1 17:47:37 smith /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usb-storage for USB product ea0/2168/200
Dec 1 17:47:50 smith kernel: sda: Unit Not Ready, sense:
Dec 1 17:47:50 smith kernel: Current 00:00: sense key Unit Attention
Dec 1 17:47:50 smith kernel: Additional sense indicates Not ready to ready change,medium may have changed
Dec 1 17:47:50 smith kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
Dec 1 17:47:50 smith kernel: sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08
Dec 1 17:47:50 smith kernel: Current sd00:00: sense key Unit Attention
Dec 1 17:47:50 smith kernel: Additional sense indicates Not ready to ready change,medium may have changed
Dec 1 17:47:50 smith kernel: sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
Dec 1 17:47:50 smith kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Dec 1 17:47:50 smith kernel: sda: sda1
Dec 1 17:48:01 smith kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:03.3-3 address 3

nb. i was able to get my QuickiDrive 128 working w/Redhat8.0 straight out of the box, by plugging in the drive and using the command 'mkdir /mnt/usb; mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb'

thanks for the help!
--chris

I think it is because the drive is fat type , so if u try -t vfat would work, or just omit the -t and it will also work I got same thing and iot is working fine
As for the mkfs try /sbin/mkfs , or maybe locate mkfs

Hope that helps

you were right on both, ox

-t vfat allows me to mount it

and mke2fs is in /sbin/mkefs