well, i was checking some other posts on this, and i found some people with the same problem, but i couldn't really figure out what to do from those, so i'm thinking i just have to post a new thread.

anyway, i am having trouble with my DiskOnKey usb flash drive. i know it can't be the usb drive, because i use it quite frequently, and i have another flash drive that i use (which linux had no troubles with).

however, when i try to mount the diskonkey with the command

mount /dev/sdb1

it tells me that the device /dev/sdb1 does not exist. i've tried other variants of this command, for instance:

mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1
mount -t auto /dev/sdb1 /dev/diskonkey

and got the same result. the device shows up in usb view, and it even lists it as a diskonkey, which makes me think that it should be supported. i did a search at a website with info on supported hardware and also found it there.

any suggestions? thanks a lot in advance.

Look at the output of dmesg. Are there any USB errors related to your flash drive?

Since you have a USB hard drive I would assume that all of the USB modules are working. I would also assume that the USB hdd is /dev/sda. You might try instead of /dev/sdb1 just /dev/sdb and see if it works.

i'm not sure exactly what this all means, but here's what dmesg gives me after i put in the device:

hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.0-1, assigned address 3
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: M-Sys Model: DiskOnKey Rev: 2.51
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sdb: 15584 512-byte hdwr sectors (8 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
/dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0:
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 3
Device 08:01 not ready.
I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 0
MSDOS FS: IO charset utf8
Device 08:01 not ready.
I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 0
FAT: unable to read boot sector
FAT: freeing iocharset=utf8
Device 08:00 not ready.
I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0

some of that might be from me trying the mount command both without specifying file type and by specifiying fat32 (just a guess, probably a stupid one).

any suggestions?

Hmm.. device not ready. Don't see anything else to be a problem.

I haven't see that message so not sure what it means.

By the output of dmesg you should have a /dev/sdb. Since its probably formated as FAT16 then I don't see why this shouldn't work:

mount -t auto /dev/sdb1 /mnt/diskonkey

hmmm......

when i try that i get:

mount: special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist

????

You could try /dev/sda1, for me that works!