Ive had a few issues with mounting my ipod and a usb drive that has several partitions.
First issue. Depending on the device I mounted first, sometimes the ipod would mount as /dev/sda1 and sometimes as /dev/sdb1. This would really screw things up. To resolve this issue,I setup udev rules as follows for both my usb drive and for the ipod. I setup the rules so that the usb drive is /dev/sda1 - /dev/sda2 - and /dev/sda5 and the ipod as /dev/sdb1
Code:
#SDA1
KERNEL=="sd*", SUBSYSTEMS=="block", ATTR{start}=="63", ATTR{size}=="191446542", OWNER="dp", NAME="sda1"
#SDA2
KERNEL=="sd*", SUBSYSTEMS=="block", ATTR{size}=="409593240", OWNER="dp", NAME="sda2"
#SDA5
KERNEL=="sd*", SUBSYSTEMS=="block", ATTR{size}=="409593177", OWNER="dp", NAME="sda5"
# SDA Ipod
SUBSYSTEMS=="scsi", DRIVERS=="sd", ATTRS{model}=="iPod", ATTRS{vendor}=="Apple ", NAME="sdb1"
I also setup fstab to direct where to mount the devices and who can mount the device.
Code:
/dev/hdc2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdc3 /vm ext3 auto,users,exec,rw,sync 1 2
#/dev/sda2 /backup ext3 auto,users,exec,rw,sync 1 2
#/dev/sda1 /mybook vfat auto,users,exec,rw,sync 1 0
#/dev/sda5 /rainbow vfat auto,users,exec,rw,sync 1 0
#/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
#/backup/slackware-12.2-install-dvd.iso /iso users,iso9660 ro,loop,auto 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /ipod vfat auto,users,exec,rw,sync 1 0
In spite of this setup, I still have problems mounting as a user instead of as root. Other times I see that the devices are are not shown as setup in the udev rules.
Problem 2 : I had not mounted my ipod in a while. Now, I am not able to mount it at all as a user. When using konqueror I get the following error.
Quote:
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A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member "Mount" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal")
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I know nothing about Hal.
Furthermore when trying to mount using command line, I get the following error:
Code:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
dmesg | tail
Code:
sd 5:0:0:0: [sda] 7999487 512-byte hardware sectors (4096 MB)
sd 5:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 5:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 68 00 00 08
sd 5:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
sda: sda1 sda2
sd 5:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
FAT: invalid media value (0x2f)
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda1.
I am not sure what "invalid media value means".
