How to mount a Sony Memory Stick on Mandrake 10.0 ?
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If not follow the following rule, you should mount it by yourself :
first, open a terminal :
su ( you should be root to do that )
**** ( your root password )
mkdir /mnt/sony ( to create a new file "sony" or whatever you want )
by now if you use Konqueror and go to /mnt you should have a new file named "sony"
return to the terminal, and mount your devise:
mount /dev/sda /mnt/sony
( you will then mount your device /dev/sda to your mount point /mnt/sony )
dev/sda can be different in your case (sda1 or sdb...) the mandrake control center can help here... your device is probably detected but not mounted !!
Thanks for the reply. I did exactly as you mentioned, but no luck. This is what is happening
[root@localhost mnt]# mount /dev/sda /mnt/sonymemstick
mount: special device /dev/sda does not exist
After this I tried,
[root@localhost mnt]# mount /dev/hde2 /mnt/sonymemstick
mount: /dev/hde2 is not a valid block device
After this I tried,
[root@localhost mnt]# mount /dev/hde3 /mnt/sonymemstick
mount: block device /dev/hde3 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: No medium found
After this I tried,
[root@localhost mnt]# mount /dev/hde4 /mnt/sonymemstick
mount: block device /dev/hde4 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: No medium found
What is in your dmesg output? Is the stick recognized as usb-mass storage device?
Are the correct modules loaded when you insert the stick (usbcore,usb-storage)
Is the stick recognized as file system? (output of 'fdisk -l')
Originally posted by charlescpc I have one and Mandrake finds it.
It shows up on my desktop.
I don't do anything special with it.
It's a Lexar usb 256 stick
Yes but this is beside the point...
Mandrake/Linux must recognize the device to which the stick is inserted.
It is likely that his reader is not being recognized.
The poster has not described it, nor posted the output from dmesg so we can see.
I agree that the system should atleast identify it an available device/drive/media/hardware, which it is not doing currently.
Now, this memory stick was being used on a Windows Machine before. Is there some special formatting technique that needs to be used such that Mandrake 10.0 starts identifying this device ?
I even rebooted the system with memory stick inside the Slot. For your records, my machine is a VAIO PCG-505JS
No nothing "special" has to be done if the kernel supports your hardware.
That is the question.
Since the memory stick reader built into your Sony, is considered by Sony as a proprietary device, for which they DO NOT release the specs, kernel support is problematic.
that create a new device option would work only if the system identifies this mem-stick as a valid drive which it is not currently.
Can I check some config file to validate whether or not the mem-stick is identified by my system ? When this machine was on Windows , which was laast week, this mem-stick was being used on this machine. Now either I remove the mem-stick or insert it, the small bulb in the slot is not getting lighted, the way it used to be earlier on Windows, so I am sure the system is taking this as a valid drive
I looked the Hardware Configuration from Mandrake and in the detected Hardware list, there is an entry for Memory Stick Controller. Following is the information on it:
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