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cawill

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Registered: 2007-12-12

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Mount Usb or Ipod (hal) [SOLVED]

Installed Hal according to the guide (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL) but it doesnt mount my ipod or my usb stick.

Any ideas? and how can I mount them manually?

Last edited by cawill (2008-01-18 19:56:33)

ProzacR

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Registered: 2007-04-29

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Re: Mount Usb or Ipod (hal) [SOLVED]

As root:
mount /dev/sdb1 /on/somewhere

Or better way:
nano /etc/fstab
Then add line at end:  /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1  vfat   user,noauto,unhide   0      0
ctl+o ctrl+x
Ten as normal user:
mount /dev/sdb1
To eject:
umount /dev/sdb1

Sjoden

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Registered: 2007-08-16

Posts: 380

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Re: Mount Usb or Ipod (hal) [SOLVED]

Add yourself to the 'hal' and 'dbus' groups. Make sure 'hal' is in your daemons array down at the bottom of rc.conf.
gpasswd -a username hal
gpasswd -a username dbus
nano /etc/rc.conf

Then you can run "/etc/rc.d/hal start" or you just reboot, and then reconnect your usb drive or ipod.

Last edited by Sjoden (2008-01-18 19:48:33)

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cawill

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From: United Kingdom

Registered: 2007-12-12

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Re: Mount Usb or Ipod (hal) [SOLVED]

Thanks, both the ipod and the usb stick are detected by the system.

When trying to mount Ipod:

[root@myhost chris]# mount /dev/sdc /multimedia/Ipod
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc,
       missing codepage or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

dmesg output:

[root@myhost chris]# dmesg | tail
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sdd: sdd1
sd 9:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
FAT: count of clusters too big (3662803)
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdc.
FAT: count of clusters too big (3662803)
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdc.
[root@myhost chris]#

How can I fix this? Everything worked on my old arch computer :S

Thanks for your help so far.

EDIT: Usb mounts fine, Still have ipod problems though.

[root@myhost chris]# mount /dev/sdc1 /multimedia/Ipod
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

How do I do that? and how can I get Hal to work?

Last edited by cawill (2008-01-18 19:50:06)

cawill

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From: United Kingdom

Registered: 2007-12-12

Posts: 63

Re: Mount Usb or Ipod (hal) [SOLVED]

Add yourself to the 'hal' and 'dbus' groups. Make sure 'hal' is in your daemons array down at the bottom of rc.conf.
gpasswd -a username hal
gpasswd -a username dbus
nano /etc/rc.conf

Then you can run "/etc/rc.d/hal start" or you just reboot, and then reconnect your usb drive or ipod.

That seemed to work   , Thanks both of you for your help and speedy replies, Chris.

Sjoden

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Registered: 2007-08-16

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Re: Mount Usb or Ipod (hal) [SOLVED]

I've had similar problems with my USB WD Passport HD and my SanDisk USB stick as well. This was the only way I could get it to work, I forgot where I read it, I should probably make it easier to find on the wiki.

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tandycorp

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Registered: 2007-07-01

Posts: 65

Re: Mount Usb or Ipod (hal) [SOLVED]

Or better way:
nano /etc/fstab
Then add line at end:  /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1  vfat   user,noauto,unhide   0      0

Found that thread and I just want to add : do not use the unhide option with usb sticks. It gave me an error.

Last edited by tandycorp (2009-02-22 04:19:44)