Re: USB memory stick and flashcard mount failure

2007-01-15 Thread Herb Howe
Thanks to all who responded to my original post. The problem is apparently that USB memory sticks and flash cards (and probably other external memory cards) often have unique formatting that is understood by Windows but not by Linux. The best solution suggested so far (from Juha Tuuna, shown below

Re: USB memory stick and flashcard mount failure

2007-01-13 Thread Dave Patterson
on Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 06:47:41AM -0800 Herb Howe mumbled: > I'm having problems mounting either a memory stick or a flashcard using > Debian, kernel 2.6.8. > > Here's the setup: > > Line from lsusb with usb memory stick inserted: > Bus 004 Device 002: ID 08ec:0008 M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers

Re: USB memory stick and flashcard mount failure

2007-01-13 Thread Wayne Topa
John W. Foster([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > FWIW: My usb stick did not mount as sda* because I was mounting it in a card > reader of several slots. My hardware management system decided that each slot > was "sde*" so check you syslog output & look at the output of dmesg. > > Wh

Re: USB memory stick and flashcard mount failure

2007-01-13 Thread John W. Foster
On Friday 12 January 2007 12:01 pm, Wayne Topa wrote: > Herb Howe([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > I'm having problems mounting either a memory stick or a flashcard using > > Debian, kernel 2.6.8. > > > > Here's the setup: > > > > Line from lsusb with usb memory stick inserted: > >

Re: USB memory stick and flashcard mount failure

2007-01-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Herb Howe([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I'm having problems mounting either a memory stick or a flashcard using > Debian, kernel 2.6.8. > > Here's the setup: > > Line from lsusb with usb memory stick inserted: > Bus 004 Device 002: ID 08ec:0008 M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers > >

Re: USB memory stick and flashcard mount failure

2007-01-12 Thread Juha Tuuna
On Friday, 12. January 2007 16:47, Herb Howe wrote: > I'm having problems mounting either a memory stick or a flashcard using > Debian, kernel 2.6.8. > ... > There are lots of questions on the web about this problem but few simple > answers. If there is a known workable solution online, could someo

Re: USB memory stick and flashcard mount failure

2007-01-12 Thread Andrew Perrin
What's the output of (as root): fdisk -l /dev/sda Also, what happens in /var/log/syslog when you insert the device? ap -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu Assistant Professor of Socio