USB 2.0 Flash Drive with Mandrake 10
Howdy,
I'm new to this forum, and fairly new to linux, so I hope I ask my question correctly and with the right information. :D Im having a small amount of trouble with a USB 2.0 flash drive with my Mandrake 10. If I plug it in, and boot up, it is detected, it mounts and I can access the drive. The problem is, the icon on the desktop does not give me the option to unmount the drive. Even when I 'umount /mnt/removable' and remove the drive and replug it, I cant get it working again. I have to reboot to make that happen. I know I can hotplug things in my current system state as I can hotplug my camera and that gets detected and redetected. I tried using Knoppix with the usb drive, and this automatically set up the drive to be unmountable. This works when I plug the usb drive back in and remount it. Under knoppix, the fstab line for the drive is: /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppix 0 0 So I'm thinking the problem is either the modules I have installed, or something is set up strangely.. And now for some printouts.... under sda in Harddrake2: New devfs device: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc Old device file: /dev/sda Floppy format: DCS SOLID GEAR -USB2 Media class: hd (Mass Storage|SCSI|Bulk (Zip)) that seems correct to me. lsmod: Module Size Used by sg 38044 0 sr_mod 17028 0 radeon 127008 36 md5 3872 1 ipv6 232352 13 snd-seq-oss 31232 0 snd-seq-midi-event 7552 1 snd-seq-oss snd-seq 51024 4 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event snd-pcm-oss 51812 0 snd-mixer-oss 17952 1 snd-pcm-oss snd-via82xx 24128 1 snd-pcm 93156 2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-via82xx snd-timer 24484 2 snd-seq,snd-pcm snd-ac97-codec 58148 1 snd-via82xx gameport 4480 1 snd-via82xx snd-page-alloc 11972 2 snd-via82xx,snd-pcm snd-mpu401-uart 7072 1 snd-via82xx snd-rawmidi 23616 1 snd-mpu401-uart snd-seq-device 8008 3 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-rawmidi snd 52484 14 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event,snd-seq,snd-pcm-oss,snd-mixer-oss,snd-via82xx,snd-pcm,snd-timer,snd-ac97-codec,snd-mpu401-uart,snd-rawmidi,snd-seq-device soundcore 9248 1 snd af_packet 20520 0 hid 53312 0 ide-floppy 18752 0 ide-tape 34864 0 ide-cd 40548 0 cdrom 37184 2 sr_mod,ide-cd floppy 59444 0 8139too 23712 0 mii 4992 1 8139too ohci1394 33956 0 ieee1394 287856 1 ohci1394 nls_cp850 4736 1 vfat 13760 1 fat 45120 1 vfat usb-storage 72932 0 nls_iso8859-1 3904 2 ntfs 85932 1 supermount 37876 2 via-agp 7360 1 agpgart 31016 2 via-agp ehci-hcd 24196 0 uhci-hcd 29104 0 usbcore 99132 6 hid,usb-storage,ehci-hcd,uhci-hcd rtc 11576 0 ext3 110408 2 jbd 54328 1 ext3 sd_mod 16608 0 sata_via 4580 0 libata 38912 1 sata_via,[permanent] scsi_mod 114008 5 sg,sr_mod,usb-storage,sd_mod,libata and my fstab file: /dev/hde6 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hde8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdg /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hde1 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0 /dev/hde5 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hde7 swap swap defaults 0 0 none /mnt/removable supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0 Id really appreciate some help on this issue. I've looked around the forums for solutions, but I couldn't find much in the way of re-plugging a usb device, mostly just mounting it. Cheers! |
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Try changing the fstab to /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable ext2,vfat noauto,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 Then create a link ln -s dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1 might already exist. |
Thanks for that,
I added that line to the fstab, but when I rebooted, I found that the line(s) I removed originally: none /mnt/removable2 supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0 was replaced. I noticed that when I booted, sometime during the startup messages, a dialog box comes up with Harddrake saying a device was added. So again, I can get the drive to work under /mnt/removable2, but I cant umount, unplug and replug the drive... :confused: Could I have a service running, or something else configured wrong outside of the fstab file? Any suggestions? |
xxx_Birdman_xxx - I am just starting to dig into getting my SanDisk compact flash reader working in Mandrake 10. Some of the things I'm observing may shed some light on what you're seeing?
If I have "hotplug" service running or started, I get multiple "removable" type directories that create/disappear on their own in /mnt. If I disable hotplug, I only get /mnt/removable created/removed as I plug/unplug my reader. I've been successful at disabling hotplug, rebooting my system with no USB devices attached, then after full boot up and log in, I checked my /etc/fstab. It has no references to "/mnt/removable". Then, I plug in my USB reader and recheck /etc/fstab. A line magically appears with "/dev/scsi/host3/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /mnt/removable auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850,noauto,exec 0 0" The reason this fstab entry "magically appears" (I'm guessing) is because devfsd is what is really controlling /dev/sda1 on MDK 10? At any rate, once this line appears in /etc/fstab, I can then type "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable" and it mounts! But I can only access the mounted files as my root userid at this time... I'm still working on understanding that part. So, in a nutshell, I can mount/unmount this device at will without rebooting the operating system and I only have one instance of /mnt/removable. Coincidentally, no icons pop up on my desktop for "removable" and that's fine by me (for now). I can at least get to my cards data. Hopefully these ramblings help you figure out your card too! |
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