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shadowhunter

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Registered: 2003-10-08

Posts: 26

Mounting usb disks...

Hi all,

Does anyone know what must be configured for mounting usb-storage devices?

It is listed in /proc/bus/usb... I can see it with USBview, and it works under Mandrake...
There are no sda sdb... device nodes in /dev
Couldn't find anything usb-related in there... (kernel = 2.6.10 SRC)

Thanks,
Geert.

z4ziggy

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From: Israel

Registered: 2004-03-29

Posts: 573

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Re: Mounting usb disks...

look in the log (dmesg) for hcd messages, it should tell u there the new dev. also, u might check /proc/partitions, but thats just a wild shot  8)

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dk

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Registered: 2004-04-20

Posts: 106

Re: Mounting usb disks...

Maybe check /etc/fstab and change those usbdevfs to usbfs

Pajaro

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Registered: 2004-04-21

Posts: 884

Re: Mounting usb disks...

I use submount to mount all my remobable devices.

in the particular case of usb-storage:

- be sure you load the module usb-storage (I let hotplug do it for me) in order to have /dev/sda1 created when you plug the remobable device.

- fstab entry:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/pendrive subfs fs=vfat,rw,sync 0 0

the sync option disables buffering the device so that when it stops flashing everything is written.

The only thing I didn't find after googling for hours is how to stop the usb device before unplugging it. Everybody seems to simply unplug the device when it stops flashing though being still powered.

Moo-Crumpus

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From: Hessen / Germany

Registered: 2003-12-01

Posts: 1,488

Re: Mounting usb disks...

Have a look at the wiki. It is posted there.

Btw, I simply use the hal daemon. Plug usb stick in will create icons on the desktop, klicking the icn will open the drive. Everything is fine.

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shadowhunter

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Registered: 2003-10-08

Posts: 26

Re: Mounting usb disks...

After some googling I got it fixed...

It seems that you need to enable the disk option in the scsi section of the kernel if you want a disk to work. Cd-rom section => usb-writer will work.
I just left it out of compilation...

recompiled as modules, everything works fine.

The only thing I didn't find after googling for hours is how to stop the usb device before unplugging it. Everybody seems to simply unplug the device when it stops flashing though being still powered.

I simply unmount it... and remove it from the hub.

thanks for the replies.

Geert.

scarecrow

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From: Greece

Registered: 2004-11-18

Posts: 715

Re: Mounting usb disks...

With the 2.6.10 Arch kernel you can mount your CD/DVD and pen drives under /media (create the directory manually).
pacman -Sy dbus hal
Put dbus and hal as daemons in /etc/rc.conf (dbus must be listed BEFORE hal).
Remove all your references of USB and CD-ROM devices from /etc/fstab, and reboot. Now everytime you insert a medium all you have to do is using something like kuikdisk to mount it to /media/XXX. In my system the subfolders /cdrwiter , /dvdwriter, /floppy and /USB_DRIVE were automatically created in /media whenever I inserted a medium to the devices.
There's also a new daemon named "ivman" which communicates with dbus and automounts under those folders any media that would be inserted- I don't think Arch uses ivman currently, but it shouldn't be difficult at all to implement.

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