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Hi all. I've a problem mounting an USB flash drive. When I plug the flash drive, I can see on the first terminal window (CTRL+F1) the information about the pen ...
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  1. 05-18-2006 #1
    hclima
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    Hi all.

    I've a problem mounting an USB flash drive. When I plug the flash drive, I can see on the first terminal window (CTRL+F1) the information about the pen drive and the device to be use on the access (sdb). But when I try to mount it I get some troubles:

    Code:
    # mount /dev/sdb /mnt/removable
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
    So, I try with many filesystems without success (fat, vfat, fat16, fat32, nfs, ufs, usbfs, autofs)

    Code:
    # mount -t autofs /dev/sdb /mnt/removable
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb,
            or too many mounted dile systems
    After many days on search, I realise that the device /dev/sdb is created "on-the-fly", when I plug the USB flash drive and it is pointing to /dev/scsi/host*/bus0/target0/lun0/disc where the * is changed by a number > 2 and it depends of the times I plug and unplug it (e.g. If I plug it and unplug it 3 times, at the 3rd plug time it will point to /dev/scsi/host5/....). After some tries I saw that I can mount it manualy using the command:

    Code:
    # mount /dev/scsi/host*/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /mnt/removable
    With this I can access all the content of the flash drive.

    Now I need to chage /dev/sdb -> /dev/scsi/host*/bus0/target0/lun0/disc to /dev/sdb -> /dev/scsi/host*/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 and I don't know how to do that.

    Any Ideas???


    More Info:
    -> Dell precision M70
    -> lsmod
    Code:
    [root@localhost ~]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
nls_iso8859_1           3904  0
nls_cp437               5568  0
vfat                   12768  0
fat                    41184  1 vfat
autofs4                17956  0
nfsd                  203360  8
exportfs                5632  1 nfsd
parport_pc             36420  0
lp                     12296  0
parport                34376  2 parport_pc,lp
ipv6                  244160  8
ipmi_si                31974  1
ipmi_msghandler        50664  1 ipmi_si
i810_audio             35796  0
ac97_codec             17452  1 i810_audio
soundcore               9312  1 i810_audio
af_packet              21128  0
tg3                    80644  0
tsdev                   7456  0
joydev                  9728  0
evdev                   9184  0
usbmouse                5280  0
nvidia               4086352  14
usbhid                 43104  0
agpgart                33224  1 nvidia
usb_storage            64704  0
ehci_hcd               29572  0
uhci_hcd               31792  0
usbcore               114136  6 usbmouse,usbhid,usb_storage,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd
rtc                    11448  0
ext3                  128840  2
jbd                    54072  1 ext3
sd_mod                 17360  4
ata_piix                8644  3
libata                 44900  1 ata_piix
scsi_mod              123488  3 usb_storage,sd_mod,libata
    -> fdisk
    Code:
    [root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1         892     7164958+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2             893        7296    51440130    5  Extended
/dev/sda5             893        1146     2040223+  82  Linux swap
/dev/sda6            1147        7296    49399843+  83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 497 MB, 497549312 bytes
16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 1898 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1        1898      485872    6  FAT16

Disk /dev/sdc: 1 MB, 1474560 bytes
1 heads, 3 sectors/track, 960 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 3 * 512 = 1536 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1   ?   623257122   679486963    84344761   69  Unknown
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(68, 13, 10) logical=(623257121, 0, 3)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(288, 115, 43) logical=(679486962, 0, 1)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdc2   ?   567173161  1190466982   934940732+  73  Unknown
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(371, 114, 37) logical=(567173160, 0, 2)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(366, 32, 33) logical=(1190466981, 0, 3)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdc3   ?         858         858           0   74  Unknown
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(371, 114, 37) logical=(857, 0, 3)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(372, 97, 50) logical=(857, 0, 2)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdc4               1  1145037824  1717556736    0  Empty
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
     phys=(0, 0, 0) logical=(0, 0, 1)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
     phys=(0, 0, 0) logical=(1145037823, 0, 3)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Partition table entries are not in disk order
    -> uname -a
    Code:
    [root@localhost ~]# uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.10 #1 Mon Feb 6 17:43:26 CET 2006 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
    -> kernelversion
    Code:
    [root@localhost ~]# kernelversion
2.6
    -> cat /etc/fstab
    Code:
    [root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/sda6 /data_local ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
none /mnt/hd supermount dev=/dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0
none /mnt/removable supermount dev=/dev/sdb,fs=auto 0 0
dev=/dev/scsi/host6/bus0/target0/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
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  2. 05-18-2006 #2
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    the problem you are having here is that you are trying to mount the device, not the partition, instead of
    Code:
    mount /dev/sdb /mnt/removable
    try
    Code:
    mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/removable
    That will mount the first (and most likely only) partition of the pen drive to /mnt/removable
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  3. 05-18-2006 #3
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    Hi.
    Thanks for the help, but did't work.

    When I try
    Code:
    mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/removable
    I receive the error
    Code:
    mount: /dev/sdb1 is not a block device
    and when I make ls -ls /dev/
    I get:
    Code:
    ...
lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root       33 May 18 10:13 sdb -> scsi/host5/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
drwxr-xr-x  1 root root        0 May 17 19:34 sdb1/
lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root       33 May 18 10:13 sdc -> scsi/host5/bus0/target0/lun1/disc
...
    So, with this information we can see that sdb1 is a directory and maybe is because of that I can't mount it.
    Now, as you can see sdb is pointing to scsi/host5/bus0/target0/lun0/disc but I think it must point to scsi/host5/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 which is the one I can mount manualy. How can change the target of sdb?

    Tks.
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  4. 05-18-2006 #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by hclima
    Now, as you can see sdb is pointing to scsi/host5/bus0/target0/lun0/disc but I think it must point to scsi/host5/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 which is the one I can mount manualy. How can change the target of sdb?
    You can remove the sdb symlink
    Code:
    rm /dev/sdb
    andd then to recreate it to point to the scsi/host5/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
    Code:
    ln -s /dev/scsi/host5/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 sdb
    Though what u may wanna do is link it to another device temporarily to check it works, and leave the sdb link there for now... Just link it to sdc or something like that so you know, then try mounting /dev/sdc instead of sdb
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    Code:
    rm /dev/sdb
ln -s /dev/scsi/host5/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 sdb
mount /dev/sdb /mnt/removable
    worked but just while when I've the usb flash pluged in, because if I unplug it and plug it again, I had the same scenary as before.
    But I've a new issue, I watch the /var/log/messages file and the output is:

    Code:
    May 18 11:42:54 localhost kernel: usb 5-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8
May 18 11:42:54 localhost modprobe: FATAL: Module scsimon not found.
May 18 11:42:54 localhost kernel: scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
May 18 11:42:59 localhost kernel:   Vendor:           Model: USB DISK Pro      Rev: PMAP
May 18 11:42:59 localhost kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
May 18 11:43:00 localhost kernel: SCSI device sdb: 971776 512-byte hdwr sectors (498 MB)
May 18 11:43:00 localhost kernel: sdb: assuming Write Enabled
May 18 11:43:00 localhost kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
May 18 11:43:00 localhost kernel: SCSI device sdb: 971776 512-byte hdwr sectors (498 MB)
May 18 11:43:00 localhost kernel: sdb: assuming Write Enabled
May 18 11:43:00 localhost kernel: sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
May 18 11:43:00 localhost kernel:  /dev/scsi/host7/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
May 18 11:43:00 localhost kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi7, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
May 18 11:43:00 localhost kernel: Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi7, channel 0, id 0, lun 0,  type 0
May 18 11:43:00 localhost kernel:   Vendor:           Model: USB DISK Pro      Rev: PMAP
May 18 11:43:00 localhost kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
May 18 11:43:00 localhost kernel: SCSI device sdc: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
May 18 11:43:00 localhost kernel: sdc: assuming Write Enabled
May 18 11:43:00 localhost kernel: sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
May 18 11:43:00 localhost kernel: SCSI device sdc: 2880 512-byte hdwr sectors (1 MB)
May 18 11:43:00 localhost kernel: sdc: assuming Write Enabled
May 18 11:43:00 localhost kernel: sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
May 18 11:43:00 localhost kernel:  /dev/scsi/host7/bus0/target0/lun1: unknown partition table
May 18 11:43:00 localhost kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sdc at scsi7, channel 0, id 0, lun 1
May 18 11:43:00 localhost kernel: Attached scsi generic sg2 at scsi7, channel 0, id 0, lun 1,  type 0
May 18 11:43:00 localhost perl: drakupdate_fstab called with --auto --add /dev/scsi/host7/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
May 18 11:43:00 localhost perl: suggest_mount_point: don't know what to with hd sdb1
May 18 11:43:00 localhost scsi.agent[7192]: disk at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb5/5-5/5-5:1.0/host7/target7:0:0/7:0:0:0
May 18 11:43:01 localhost scsi.agent[7226]: disk at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb5/5-5/5-5:1.0/host7/target7:0:0/7:0:0:1
    I don't know what means scsimon at the line "May 18 11:42:54 localhost modprobe: FATAL: Module scsimon not found.", I'm seaching at the net but till now, I've got nothing.
    Do you know something?
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