[ale] USB Pendrive on RH 8.0

[Pete Hardie]

Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 April 2003 10:20 am, Pete Hardie wrote:
> 
>>I'm not sure if this political discussion group is the right place to
>>ask this, but here goes.....:->
>>
>>I bought a generic USB pendrive under the hope of using it to transfer
>>image files from my RH8 box to the wife's Windoze box.
>>
>>I'm having trouble getting the pendrive mounted.
>>
>>I've looked for the usual online resources, and they all point to it
>>appearing like a SCSI drive, and mounting /dev/sda1.  However, all my
>>attempts to do this fail int he mount (I have no real SCSI devices on
>>the box).
>>
>>Anyone have good pointers and/or hints?
> 
> 
> First, tell us what you see in /var/log/messages when you plug the drive 
> in.  run "tail -f /var/log/messages" as root, then plug it in.  The 
> messages you get should be a hint as to what is happening and maybe how to 
> mount the device.  Post the messages and people can probably help figure 
> it out.

D'oh!  Good point.  I'll get the logs tonight.  However, as far as I can tell, 
the USB portion is functioning - I see the built-in hub activation, and the 
usb-storage module loaded.  /proc/bus/usb/devices shows the pendrive.



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