1) After you have plugged the stick in, do "dmesg | tail" and see if you see any messages from the kernel telling you that it has detected your device, and potentially listing availabile partitions. You may find that your storage is not on partition 1. For example, Zip drives show up on partition 4 of their device. My iPod shows up as two partitions, 1 and 2. The main storage is on 2!
2) do the following command "cat /proc/partitions". This lists all the partitions that the kernel is aware, whether they are mounted or not.
Good luck!
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]]>I've got an up to date Arch system with kernel 2.6.15. I've recently purchased a COWON Iaudio U3 mp3 device, but can't get it to mount under Arch. Every other flash card and mp3 player I have mounts fine as a a usb mass storage device with a FAT file system, but not the COWON. When I use cfdisk on it (cfdisk /dev/sdb), it tells me that it has 1Gb of free space - it doesn't recognize any filesystem. Even if I use cfdisk to create a FAT filesystem - it still won't mount. Under windows the same device mounts as a FAT filesystem ok. My fstab entries are:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/flash vfat user, noauto 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/flash vfat user, noauto 0 0
I'm kind of out of ideas at the moment. COWON even advertises that this device works with Linux. Any suggestions???
thanks.
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