USP pen drive not showing up?

robcult731 · 03-17-2007, 11:24 AM

Hello there

I'm quite new to linux and brand new to Slackware and the XFCE desktop, just installed Slackware 11 and XFCE fine with no problems, booted up and all that - gotten to the xfce desktop, put my USB flash drive in and nothings happened? It just doesn't seem to register? can't find it in the file system or anything?

What's happening and what do I need to do to access my pen drive?

Thanks

masonm · 03-17-2007, 11:49 AM

Plug in the pen drive and then do dmesg. What do the last few lines say?

robcult731 · 03-17-2007, 12:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by masonm

Plug in the pen drive and then do dmesg. What do the last few lines say?

Hi, the last few lines say:

Quote:

usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:1d.7-3 address 2
hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.7-3, assigned address 3
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 3

gnashley · 03-17-2007, 12:41 PM

So, then do 'fdisk -l' to find your device (usually /dev/sda1).
then create a mount-point for it, for example:
mkdir /mnt/usb-pendrive
then mount the device:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb-pendrive

robcult731 · 03-17-2007, 12:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gnashley

So, then do 'fdisk -l' to find your device (usually /dev/sda1).
then create a mount-point for it, for example:
mkdir /mnt/usb-pendrive
then mount the device:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb-pendrive

fantastic! thank you very much