opening pendrive in RHEL 4.0

anupamcbr · 02-13-2006, 01:03 AM

hi all,
i can detect my 512 mb usb pen drive in RHEL 4.0. but can't find or open it . pls give your suggestions on doing it

lleb · 02-13-2006, 01:05 AM

are you using the GUI? if so it will auto mount for you and you just need to double click to get to it, if not do a df -h and see what all is mounted. that should give you the path to your pen drive and be good to go from there. i hope.

anupamcbr · 02-13-2006, 01:10 AM

sir,
there is no icon on desktop and in df -h there is no indication of pendrive

Nylex · 02-13-2006, 01:13 AM

When you plug it in, dmesg should tell you what device it's "attached" to. You can then mount it with something like (this is what I use for mine)

# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda.

HTH. You'd then be able to access the files on it by going to /mnt/sda. Obviously, you can mount where you like, just make sure that the directory you want to mount to exists beforehand!

anupamcbr · 02-13-2006, 01:20 AM

i got the following message-
usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using address 3
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: Generic Model: USB Flash Drive Rev: 1.03
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
USB Mass Storage device found at 3
-- now tell me what should i do as i tried the line-
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda.

Nylex · 02-13-2006, 01:26 AM

Was that the entire message? What happened when you tried to mount it?

anupamcbr · 02-13-2006, 01:36 AM

sir,
this is the only message which i got in console and when i tried to mount it says no medium found.