got it to work under redhat 7.1 - made the appropriate changes to fstab. not problems. under suse 8 i get this error:

could not mount device.
the reported error was:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, or too many mounted file systems

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i've tried changing it from auto to vfat and msdos under fstab but no luck. under rh7.1 it worked with auto. suggestions?

Have you checked to see whether the device exists under SuSE? If so, can you mount it explicitely (from the command line)?

yeah. it's there. tried from command line also.

it's trying to mount it - the reader lights up when either the icon is clicked typed from command line.

Mace, in Suse I got mine to work by just pluggin in the reader (MSAC-US1) to the USB port, booted up, plugged in the stick, and it put an icon on my desktop. Clicked the icon, and viola! I was lookin at pics.

Now in Slack, I had to hand crunch it.

I plugged it in, booted, and opened an xterm:
modprobe usb-storage
mkdir /mnt/sony
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/sony
cd /mnt/sony
ls

And I saw my files.

Cool

i've tried a second stick to see if there was a problem with the first. second mounts? go figure.

Sweet

Maybe you formatted wrong, or used the PC instead of the device to format it, or maybe it was little elves from Sony's factory, playing tricks on you because you decided to go with a better OS, who knows, but who cares, it works!

Cool

Masta, man lucky you it worked for you, did what you did, and I'm unlucky bro, i be getting this, go figure.

bash-2.05a# modprobe usb-storage
bash-2.05a# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/sony
mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
bash-2.05a# cd /mnt/sony
bash-2.05a# ls

I already created the director sony in mnt too
Hmmm, it's not working I tell you!!!! [Flings MSAC-US1 around the room and hits against the walls, oh uh, hope it still works by the time a solution is found]

Mace, in Suse I got mine to work by just pluggin in the reader (MSAC-US1) to the USB port, booted up, plugged in the stick, and it put an icon on my desktop. Clicked the icon, and viola! I was lookin at pics.

Now in Slack, I had to hand crunch it.

I plugged it in, booted, and opened an xterm:
modprobe usb-storage
mkdir /mnt/sony
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/sony
cd /mnt/sony
ls

And I saw my files.

Cool

interesting - this worked under debian woody. just tried it no problem.


suse 8 has this hotplug kernel mod thingy - maybe that's causing some prob.

When you enable the usb-mass sotrage module have a look at the logs to see what scsi device name was assigned to it. (it becomes /dev/sdb if I plug it in after my Clie cradle).