Device only mounts after two manual attempts

lagagnon · 2011-02-16 17:12:10

Attempting to mount my Sony Walkman NW-E005F mp3 player. The device only manually mounts after a specific sequence of manual mount attempts. It then double-mounts via a udev rule, but only after a manual mount. I am not using HAL, just udev. I have the standard media udev rules in /etc/udev/rules.d as per the wiki.

Here are the log messages 10 seconds after I've inserted the USB device:

Feb 16 09:03:57 localhost kernel: usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 11
Feb 16 09:03:57 localhost kernel: scsi16 : usb-storage 1-4:1.0
Feb 16 09:03:58 localhost kernel: scsi 16:0:0:0: Direct-Access     SONY     NWWM MEM AAD2    1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
Feb 16 09:03:58 localhost kernel: sd 16:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
Feb 16 09:03:58 localhost kernel: sd 16:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

Note that the partition /dev/sdb1 is not assigned a device node.
If I then attempt to do a standard manual mount this is what happens:

[larry@eagle ~]$ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/tmp
mount: special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist

But I notice that if I then do this sequence below it will mount:

[larry@eagle ~]$ sudo mount /dev/sdb /mnt/tmp
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
[larry@eagle ~]$ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/tmp

But then what has also happened is an automount by udev - here is the relevant output of "df -h":

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1             1.9G  1.9G   81M  96% /media/usbhd-sdb1
/dev/sdb1             1.9G  1.9G   81M  96% /mnt/tmp

There is nothing in my /etc/fstab file to conflict, so I do not understand why the manual mount is not working without the gymnastics and why after doing that udev mount finally kicks in?

Any ideas or suggestions greatly appreciated.

Arch Linux

#1 2011-02-16 17:12:10

Device only mounts after two manual attempts

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