[NTLUG:Discuss] kernel message

[Val Harris]

Thanks for the info.  I ended up with a PNY Technologies Atache
USB 2.0 Flash Drive.  Their PDF manual had some info for Linux
(Surprise!).  I used that, your info and some other info off the
web to get it working.

To get a USB flash drive working on my Fedora
core 1 system with kernel 2.4.22-1.2149.nptl:

I plugged in the flash drive (then as root):

# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
   Attached devices:
   Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
     Vendor: LITE-ON  Model: COMBO LTC-48161H Rev: KH0M
     Type:   CD-ROM              ANSI SCSI revision: 02
   Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
     Vendor:          Model: USB DISK 2.0     Rev: 1.16
     Type:   Direct-Access       ANSI SCSI revision: 02

This showed that the USB modules were properly loaded
and the system saw and identified the device.

I then added the following line to my /etc/fstab file:

   /dev/sda1  /mnt/flash  vfat user,noauto,unmask=0 0 0

I made the mount point:

# mkdir /mnt/flash

and then I (as myself rather than root) mounted the drive:

   mount /mnt/flash

after I was finished using the drive, I unmounted it
with:

   umount /mnt/flash

Hopefully this will assist anyone else with my or a similar
clue deficit.

Thanks again for the nudge in the right direction!

-- 
Val W. Harris                                      val.harris at comcast.net

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is
  someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."
- Oprah Winfrey


joseph beasley wrote:
> The usb drive will be seen as a scsi device, similar to the usb
> keychains that are out.  To mount it you would use the following.
> 
> Assuming it is seen as sda1.  mount /dev/sda1 /mountpoint.
> 
> To unmount it, just umount /mountpoint.
>