Re: mounting usb frustration

2007-08-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/01/07 15:40, Bob McGowan wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 12:14:01PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 08/01/07 08:05, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: >> > For a shorter fstab entry, can you label a digital camera an

Re: mounting usb frustration

2007-08-01 Thread Bob McGowan
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 12:14:01PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/01/07 08:05, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > For a shorter fstab entry, can you label a digital camera and then use LABEL="camera" instead? You can do it with fixed disks that have decent filesystems,

Re: mounting usb frustration

2007-08-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 12:14:01PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 08/01/07 08:05, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > For a shorter fstab entry, can you label a digital camera and then use > > LABEL="camera" instead? > > You can do it with fixed disks that have decent filesystems, but I > doubt tha

Re: mounting usb frustration

2007-08-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/01/07 08:05, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 11:37:52PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 07/30/07 20:13, Carl Fink wrote: >>> USB detection has been broken on Debian for years, literally. It works fine >>> for me with removab

Re: mounting usb frustration

2007-08-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 11:37:52PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/30/07 20:13, Carl Fink wrote: > > USB detection has been broken on Debian for years, literally. It works fine > > for me with removable drives, but my Testing system will detect my Palm > > device once -- and never again, until I

Re: mounting usb frustration

2007-07-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/30/07 20:13, Carl Fink wrote: > USB detection has been broken on Debian for years, literally. It works fine > for me with removable drives, but my Testing system will detect my Palm > device once -- and never again, until I reboot. Then I can s

mounting usb frustration

2007-07-30 Thread pinniped
I would suggest reading the USB docs in these links: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/hotplug/udev.html It is convenient to use persistence to ensure that all removable USB devices retain their name regardless of how many times you plug them in and remove them. This also allows you

Re: mounting usb frustration

2007-07-30 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 09:13:03PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > USB detection has been broken on Debian for years, literally. It works fine > for me with removable drives, but my Testing system will detect my Palm > device once -- and never again, until I reboot. Then I can sync once more. Care to

Re: mounting usb frustration

2007-07-30 Thread Carl Fink
USB detection has been broken on Debian for years, literally. It works fine for me with removable drives, but my Testing system will detect my Palm device once -- and never again, until I reboot. Then I can sync once more. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read m

Re: mounting usb frustration

2007-07-30 Thread Bob McGowan
Haines Brown wrote: I mounted a USB flash card with a reader OK once, but failed the second time. With two hard disks, an external USB mass storage deveice and with a USB-key, all mounted using sda-sdd interfaces, # mount -t vfat /dev/sde1 /media/reader mount: special device /dev/sde1 doe

mounting usb frustration

2007-07-28 Thread Haines Brown
I mounted a USB flash card with a reader OK once, but failed the second time. With two hard disks, an external USB mass storage deveice and with a USB-key, all mounted using sda-sdd interfaces, # mount -t vfat /dev/sde1 /media/reader mount: special device /dev/sde1 does not exist Indeed, u