Mounting Non-IDE Devices

VxJasonxV · 07-22-2003, 07:30 PM

Hi. I'm a little used to Debian, but I'm currently experimenting with Red Hat 7.3 (will upgrade to RH9 soon), so bear with me.

The first thing I noticed, is that, debian has a very populated /mnt/ folder. Red Hat does not.

Basically, my question is:
I have a 128MB Lexar USB Key Drive, and a Tape drive.
On start-up, the console says that it finds the drives, but when I browse for them, they don't exist.

Anything I should know/do?

(Yes, I am still a Linux

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Thymox · 07-22-2003, 08:00 PM

You should try cdrecord -scanbus - if it finds your USB key, then you should make a mountpoint for it /mnt/key would be good. Then, as root, you can mount it with mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/key (this is presuming you have no other SCSI disks, such as atapi ZIP drives, etc).

As far as the tape is concerned, it may come up as /dev/st0

VxJasonxV · 07-22-2003, 08:32 PM

/dev/sda1? I could swear the boot text said it found it at /dev/hdd1 or /dev/hdc1...I don't remember which though.

If the tape is at /dev/st0, do I still have to mount it somwhere? (/mnt/tape ?)

I tried using Kdat, and tried everything it had /dev/tape, /dev/st0, and one other one...and none of them responded.

michaelk · 07-22-2003, 10:50 PM

Nope USB mass storage devices use SCSI emulation. So your drive will be /dev/sda1. /dev/hdx are IDE drives.

Check lsmod command to see if all the USB modules are being loaded. There are previous posts on the subject that list specifics.

Tape drives don't get mounted but I am not familar with kdat. What kind of tape drive is it? IDE? If so you will need to add append hdx=ide-scsi to your boot loader smiler to CD writers.

VxJasonxV · 07-22-2003, 11:04 PM

well, that worked...except. It said:
"mount point: /mnt/key does not exist"

So it found the device...but can't mount it :-\.

Onox · 07-22-2003, 11:42 PM

first login as root and type 'mkdir /mnt/key' without the 's, then try to mount it again

VxJasonxV · 07-22-2003, 11:57 PM

I didn't know you'd have to make the directory first

, oops.
Oh well, IT WORKS!!!!

THANK YOU!!!!