Have you been able to allow other users write access to it?  I have not
had any success.  I changed writes and ownership, still only root can
write to it.

david

On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Rick Johnson wrote:

> Richard Crawford wrote:
> > Over the weekend, my wife and I purchased a couple of those spiffy USB
> > disk pen things that hold 64MB on flash RAM.  Very useful little device. 
> > I was sold because the package claims to support every version of Windows
> > that we run in our house, and Linux kernel 2.4.0+.
> > 
> > The question is, how do I make my Linux box (running 2.4.0+) talk to the
> > USB pen?  I have Googled, but to no avail.  Anyone got any pointers?
> > 
> > 
> 
> Asuming you're runing RH 7.3 or 8.0+ (earlier may be supported as well)
> 
> 1. Plug it in.
> 
> 2. Run dmesg as root, look at the end lines. You'll see a reference 
> about a new device/partition created (/dev/sda if you have no other SCSI 
> devices, and partition /dev/sda1).
> 
> 3. create a mountpoint - mkdir /mnt/usb
> 
> 4. mount the device - mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
> 
> 5. Enjoy!
> 
> I've got a 128MB device and enjoy it immensely at work since we have 
> several non-connected networks (don't ask) that I have to transfer files 
> to/from.
> 
> HTH,
> -Rick
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