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Hi,

I have some problems when trying to mount a cruzer mini 256 MB using SuSE 8.2, but I've made some progress; maybe this can help:

When I insert the flash drive, the computer makes a sound and the drive's led turns on; for about two minutes, the system tries to recognize it, (I do nothing); then the light turns off and later the same first sound is heard: the system gave up. At that point, I type the following commands:

# modprobe -r usb-storage
# modprobe usb-storage
# exit
% mount /mnt/usb # I added this mount point in the /etc/fstab file
% cp something /mnt/usb
% ls
something

My /etc/fstab look like this:

/mnt/usb/dev/hda3 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/hda2 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb ext3,vfat defaults,noauto,users 0 0

Of course this is not exactly the way the pen drive is suppoused to work, but this is better than not working at all. I'm still looking for a better solution.

/Jaime

that doesn't work for me, hda is my hard disc! i've tried fdisk on all hda,b,c d, etc. the same for sd as well. The damn stick just doesn't show up!!!

it comes up in lsusb and if I go to yast2 it shows up there in the hardware information.

has anyone found this problem using suse 9? I may well just upgrade :(