For some reason I cannot see my flash disk (USB) when I plug it into my Kanotix machine. When plugging it into my Suse machine it is mounted automatically and an icon becomes visible on the desktop. When I click on the icon the contents is opened in Konqueror.

When plugging it into the Kanotix machine the small light on the flash disk starts flashing and after a couple of seconds iluminates permanently. No icon is displayed on the desktop. In Konqueror I cannot find it either under /mnt or under storage media (/media).

The flashing light on the flash disk shows me that it is actually detected by the PC. What is wrong?

Thanks
Cobus

Kanotix
KDE 3.5

Did you try mounting it? I don't think automounting is that common in Linux (well, I'm guessing it isn't).

How do I do that? Sorry, I'm still a newbie.

Firstly, you need to know which device to mount. Open a terminal window and run "dmesg" (without quotes). Post the output here.

ck exception polling timer started.
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Squashfs 2.2-r2 (released 2005/09/08) (C) 2002-2005 Phillip Lougher
SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, realtime, no debug enabled
SGI XFS Quota Management subsystem
Initializing Cryptographic API
Applying VIA southbridge workaround.
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xd0880000, using 6144k, total 32768k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=0
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:0ec1
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
vesafb: Mode is VGA compatible
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f03:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 100000K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:07.1, from 255 to 0
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci0000:00:07.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdcio, hddMA
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: FUJITSU MPD3084AT, ATA DISK drive
hdb: FUJITSU MPF3102AT, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdd: DVD-RW IDE1004, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 16514064 sectors (8455 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=16383/16/63, UDMA(33)
hda: cache flushes not supported
hda: hda1 hda2
hdb: max request size: 128KiB
hdb: 20015856 sectors (10248 MB) w/512KiB Cache, CHS=19857/16/63, UDMA(33)
hdb: cache flushes not supported
hdb: hdb1
hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.26.02.001.
3ware 9000 Storage Controller device driver for Linux v2.26.02.004.
libata version 1.12 loaded.
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: linear personality registered as nr 1
md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
md: raid10 personality registered as nr 9
md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
raid5: automatically using best checksumming function: pIII_sse
pIII_sse : 3074.000 MB/sec
raid5: using function: pIII_sse (3074.000 MB/sec)
raid6: int32x1 436 MB/s
raid6: int32x2 409 MB/s
raid6: int32x4 359 MB/s
raid6: int32x8 314 MB/s
raid6: mmxx1 913 MB/s
raid6: mmxx2 1424 MB/s
raid6: sse1x1 603 MB/s
raid6: sse1x2 1206 MB/s
raid6: using algorithm sse1x2 (1206 MB/s)
md: raid6 personality registered as nr 8
md: multipath personality registered as nr 7
md: md driver 0.90.2 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 3.39
device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
device-mapper: dm-multipath version 1.0.4 loaded
device-mapper: dm-round-robin version 1.0.0 loaded
device-mapper: dm-emc version 0.0.3 loaded
EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
EISA: Detected 0 cards.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
TCP reno registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Using IPI Shortcut mode
ACPI wakeup devices:
PCI0 UAR1 USB USB1 MC9
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
Freeing unused kernel memory: 272k freed
EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
(fs/jbd/recovery.c, 255): journal_recover: JBD: recovery, exit status 0, recovered transactions 828012 to 828586
(fs/jbd/recovery.c, 257): journal_recover: JBD: Replayed 5743 and revoked 83/85 blocks
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
parport_pc: VIA 686A/8231 detected
parport_pc: probing current configuration
parport_pc: Current parallel port base: 0x378
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, using FIFO [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP]
parport0: Legacy device
parport_pc: VIA parallel port: io=0x378, irq=7
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: shpc_init : shpc_cap_offset == 0
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
input: PC Speaker
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0d.0[B] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ohci_hcd 0000:00:0d.0: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:0d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ohci_hcd 0000:00:0d.0: irq 10, io mem 0xdfffc000
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
agpgart: Detected VIA Twister-K/KT133x/KM133 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 9
PCI: setting IRQ 9 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:07.2[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: UHCI Host Controller
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0d.1[B] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ohci_hcd 0000:00:0d.1: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:0d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
ohci_hcd 0000:00:0d.1: irq 10, io mem 0xdfffd000
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: irq 9, io base 0x0000cc00
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:07.3[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.3: irq 9, io base 0x0000d000
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0d.2[B] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ohci_hcd 0000:00:0d.2: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:0d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
ohci_hcd 0000:00:0d.2: irq 10, io mem 0xdfffe000
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0d.3[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ehci_hcd 0000:00:0d.3: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:0d.3: debug port 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:0d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 6
ehci_hcd 0000:00:0d.3: irq 10, io mem 0xdfffff00
ehci_hcd 0000:00:0d.3: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
hub 6-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 6-0:1.0: 6 ports detected
ne2k-pci.c:v1.03 9/22/2003 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker
http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xc800, IRQ 9, 00:50:BF:04:21:EC.
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
ohci1394: $Rev: 1313 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0d.4[C] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[9] MMIO=[dffef800-dffeffff] Max Packet=[2048]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:07.5[C] -> Link [LNKC] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:07.5 to 64
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0090e63900000933]
eth1394: $Rev: 1312 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
eth1394: eth1: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (fw-host0)
Adding 522072k swap on /dev/hda1. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:522072k
EXT3-fs warning: mounting fs with errors, running e2fsck is recommended
EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal
Capability LSM initialized
fuse init (API version 7.2)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1])
ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports 16 throttling states)
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
lp0: console ready
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-8178 Wed Dec 14 16:22:51 PST 2005
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
NET: Registered protocol family 4
NET: Registered protocol family 3
NET: Registered protocol family 5
smb_add_request: request [c9cb3e60, mid=22902] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [c9cb3e60, mid=1620] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [cf1d5e80, mid=22903] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [c4dd7ea0, mid=22904] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [c4dd7ea0, mid=1621] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [c4dd7ea0, mid=1622] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [c4dd7ea0, mid=1623] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [c4dd7ea0, mid=22905] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [c4dd7ea0, mid=22906] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [c4dd7ea0, mid=1624] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [c4dd7ea0, mid=1625] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [c4dd7ea0, mid=22907] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [c4dd7ea0, mid=22908] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [c4dd7ea0, mid=1626] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [c4dd7ea0, mid=1627] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [c4dd7ea0, mid=22909] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [c4dd7ea0, mid=22910] timed out!
hda: dma_intr: status=0x71 { DriveReady DeviceFault SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=12054433, sector=12054433
ide: failed opcode was: unknown
hda: DMA disabled
hdb: DMA disabled
ide0: reset: success
smb_add_request: request [cfac3ee0, mid=22911] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [cfac3ee0, mid=1628] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [cfac3ee0, mid=22912] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [cfac3ee0, mid=1629] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [cfac3ee0, mid=22913] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [cfac3ee0, mid=1630] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [c9a9ce60, mid=22914] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [c9a9ce60, mid=1631] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [c9a9ce60, mid=22915] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [c9a9ce60, mid=1632] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [c9a9ce60, mid=22916] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [c9a9ce60, mid=1633] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [ccbfce80, mid=22917] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [ccbfce80, mid=1634] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [ccbfce80, mid=22918] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [ccbfce80, mid=1635] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [ccbfce80, mid=22919] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [ccbfce80, mid=1636] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [ccbfce80, mid=22920] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [ccbfce80, mid=1637] timed out!
usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 3-2: not running at top speed; connect to a high speed hub
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb-storage: device found at 2
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: JetFlash Model: TS128MJF2B Rev: 2.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: unknown partition table
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
EFS: 1.0a - http://aeschi.ch.eu.org/efs/
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
smb_add_request: request [c9202e80, mid=1638] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [c9202e80, mid=1639] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [c94d0ea0, mid=22922] timed out!
smb_lookup: find //.Trash failed, error=-5
smb_add_request: request [c94d0ea0, mid=22923] timed out!
smb_lookup: find //.Trash-1000 failed, error=-5
smb_add_request: request [c94d0ea0, mid=1640] timed out!
smb_lookup: find //.Trash failed, error=-5
smb_add_request: request [c94d0ea0, mid=1641] timed out!
smb_lookup: find //.Trash-1000 failed, error=-5
SMB connection re-established (-5)
usb 3-2: USB disconnect, address 2
usb 3-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 3-2: not running at top speed; connect to a high speed hub
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 3
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: JetFlash Model: TS128MJF2B Rev: 2.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: unknown partition table
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
smb_add_request: request [cd846ec0, mid=22924] timed out!
smb_add_request: request [cd846ec0, mid=1642] timed out!

Ok. First make a directory to mount to with mkdir, e.g. "mkdir /mnt/flash" (you may need to be root, depending on where you're trying to create the directory). Then try "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash" as root, but replace "/mnt/flash" with whatever directory you created.

Get the following message:

special device /dev/sda1 does not exist

Am I doing something wrong?

Actually, maybe try /dev/sg0.

"/dev/sg0 is not a block device"

It should really be /dev/sda*something*, given your dmesg output. However, there is a line that is worrying: "sda: unknown partition table". That's probably why you can't mount /dev/sda1. You could possibly try /dev/sda, but I'm not sure that would work. Have you reformatted the device or done anything to it since using it under SUSE?

Hi Nylex

Yes, I already tried /sda after having a look at the dmesg output. It asks for a filesystem to be specified. This is probably related to your comment about the unknown partition table. I tried specifying -t vfat but it also did not work. See below:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

I have used it on a WinXP PC and then just plugged it into the Suse machine. It immediately popped up and I could access it. I then unplugged it and plugged it directly into the Kanotix machine. I also tried a different flash disk, same thing.

That is odd. Is the other flash disk you tried a different brand/model? Does that one also work under SUSE/Windows? It could be a kernel problem, I did see a post in a Debian mailing list relating to kernel issues. Another thing you could do is run "fdisk /dev/sda" and see what that shows.

Yes, the other disk is a Sony. It also works fine in SUSE. If I run fdisk /dev/sda will that then format the drive?

No, you won't format the disk. Sorry, I meant run "fdisk -l /dev/sda". Oops.