Can anyone please give me information as to how my Disgo USB drive isn't working with Fedora Core. I have plugged it in, and it lights up to signify that it is connected, but innactive. However, when I do fdisk -l in the terminal, it does not show up. Any ideas?

As root, do the following...

First, you'll need a directory to mount to...
# mkdir /mnt/usb

Second, try mounting the drive...
# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

Third, if it doesn't give you an error, look in the dir...
# ls /mnt/usb

Lastly, unmount with...
# umount /mnt/usb

If that works, you can search the message board for how to add a line to your /etc/fstab so that it's easier to mount/unmount, and allow normal users to mount/unmount.

when i type;

# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

i get the error message:

mount: /dev/sda1 not a valid block device

This even when the usb stick signifies it is connected but inactive.

Check in /proc , in either diskstats or partitions, to see if it lists the USB drive. Read the files to see what is listed in them, then plug the USB drive in, and read the files again. Hopefully, one will list the drive after plugging it in.

When i go to /proc, diskstats is not there, and partitions is just an empty document

Hmmm... This is nearing the end of my experience...

Open a terminal window... [ctrl]+[alt]+[f3] , and plug the drive into the computer. Mine always gives a notification that it's been found and tells a bit of info about it... Vendor, Model, Rev, Type, blah, blah, blah, and the device it is seen as. You can get back to the GUI with [alt]+[f7] .

If that doesn't work, try turning the computer off, plugging the drive in, and booting up. Then run "dmesg" to see the init info. It might list it in there.

Or, try the brute force method... "mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb" replacing the sda1 with sda2, sda3, ... , sda9, sdb1, sdb2, ... as high as you want to go. Hopefully, one will work. Better yet, hopefully, somebody will reply with a way to search the USB connection for the correct device.

Nope, tried all that, still didnt work.

I dunno if this will be of any interest to you, but when i go into /dev there are thousands of sdxxx devices, all with the same icon. It goes from sda1 to sdz9!

Anyway, thanks for your help. It was much appreciated.

On my system, I can mount my disgo with the command

mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb

Give that a try.

At the console type "fdisk -l /dev/sd[a-z]". This should give you any partitions that exists. If nothing shows up, you have to load a few modules. The modules you need to load to make your usb drive are sd_mod and usb-storage. Type "modprobe sd_mod ; modprobe usb-storage". Then again type "fdisk -l /dev/sd[a-z]". Do all of this as su or as root.

Putting a line in the fstab for usb storage devices is a waste of time. If you have more than two usb storage devices, one device will be mounted to different directories and the permissions will be also different.

When mounting usb storage devices, use the sync option or data you have saved or opened will be corrupted.