usb jumpdrove in fedora not showing up

gatomeno · 12-13-2006, 09:34 AM

I cannot see my USB jumpdrive in the media directory. I tried the drives in front of the PC and also the ones on the side of the monitor but it will not appear. How can this be solved?
Thanks

anomie · 12-13-2006, 10:13 AM

Immediately after plugging the usb drive in, what does dmesg | tail show you?

Gethyn · 12-13-2006, 10:14 AM

Try connecting the drive, and then use the command 'dmesg | tail'. This will show you the last few messages sent by the kernel. There should be some mention of the USB drive being detected. Assuming the drive is being detected okay by the kernel, with no errors, then you probably don't have the automount program set up. Maybe someone a little more familiar with Fedora can help you with that.

Edit: damn, too slow!

gatomeno · 12-13-2006, 10:54 AM

scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 7
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: Generic Model: STORAGE DEVICE Rev: 1.25
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sdb: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB)
usb 1-7: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
usb 1-7: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
usb 1-7: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
usb 1-7: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7

In the removable drives and media preferences, I have 'mount removable media when inserted' checked...

anomie · 12-13-2006, 11:52 AM

Can't help you with the automounter, but the following steps should help you access the usb drive contents until you get that figured out.

Code:

# cd /mnt && mkdir usb-drive
# chmod o+rw usb-drive
# mount -t vfat /dev/sdb /mnt/usb-drive

Then your regular users should have access to the contents under /mnt/usb-drive. When you're done with it, don't just pull it out of the PC. Use

Code:

# umount /mnt/usb-drive