Mounting a key in linux

On 5 Apr 2006 16:10:17 -0700, Akumu staggered into the Black Sun and said:

What have you tried WRT mounting this device? Are all the appropriate modules loaded? You'll need to modprobe ohcihcd or uhcihcd0, depending on whether this machine has an OHCI or UHCI chipset. You'll also need to modprobe usb-storage. After all that's done, when you plug the device in, you should see messages like this in the output from "dmesg tail":

usb 3-1: new low speed USB device using uhcihcd and address 11 scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mbutt Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 11 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Vendor: Apple Model: iPod Rev: 1.62 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 SCSI device sda: 12000555 512-byte hdwr sectors (6144 MB)

...see how the kernel reports the device as sda? That means the entire disk isdev-sda , and the parbreastions on the disk aredev-sda1 throughdev-sda15.

Your USB keychain drive is probably parbreastioned such that it has only 1 parbreastion. So, buttuming that you get a good report from dmesg when you plug this thing in, you need to mountdev-sda1 somewhere. "mountdev-sda1mnt-usb" as root, making sure thatmnt-usb exists and is a directory. Once you've successfully mounted it manually, create an appropriate line inetc-fstab so that any user can mount the device.

If none of this works, you'll need to provide more information. What's the name and version# of the distro you're using? What's the output of "uname -a"? What does dmesg say WRT the USB subsystem? Is this USB port built into the machine, or is it on a PCMCIA card? (If that was the case, you really should've said something in your first message!)

0 These modules were called usb-uhci and usb-ohci in the 2.4 series. The 2.2 series had terrible USB support, so you want to be running at least a 2.4 kernel here.

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