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eldara

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Registered: 2008-11-08

Posts: 2

Can't 'see' USB devices. Why?

When I plug in a USB device, I don't exactly know how to use / access it...

I've tried google, and it said something about 'mount', and I read the man page for mount completely confused.

Well... How exactly do I use a USB device like my Ipod or a flash drive?

Procyon

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Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 1,819

Re: Can't 'see' USB devices. Why?

modprobe the necessary stuff (wiki and check lshwd for module names)

plug out, plug back in, anything on dmesg?

eldara

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Registered: 2008-11-08

Posts: 2

Re: Can't 'see' USB devices. Why?

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

dmesg output:
dmesg | tail
sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 68 00 00 08
sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sdb: sdb1 sdb2
sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
FAT: invalid media value (0x2f)
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb1.
FAT: count of clusters too big (3662803)
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb.

Last edited by eldara (2008-11-08 19:16:41)

chilebiker

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From: Zurich, Switzerland

Registered: 2006-07-18

Posts: 161

Re: Can't 'see' USB devices. Why?

You might want to install hal.

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