This probably isn't USB problem. Are you saying the exit codes on success are different on the two cases?
On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Bertie Coopersmith wrote: > I have successfully - apart from one quibble - installed a Zio Smartmedia card > reader > (It may work as a writer too but I have not tried that). The USB drivers are > installed > as Kernel Loadable Modules. In my kernel SCSI is precompiled in. > > I have a shellscript for extracting camera-written images from the SmartMedia. This > starts off with some insmod commands for the USB SDDR-09 support and a mount command > which declares the Zio as /dev/sda1 with a vfat filesystem. (I do not have any > SCSI host adapter or other SCSI devices). > > The quibble is that this mount command works fine when fully specified in the > script but not when it is invoked via an entry in /etc/fstab. This means that I > cannot specify the 'user' parameter (since it is an fstab-only feature ) and hence > I cannot permit non-root users to execute that script. > > Here are the details: > It works fine when the script has: > mount -r -t vfat -onodev /dev/sda1 /zio || exit 1 > > It does not work when the script has: > mount /zio || exit 1 > and /etc/fstab has: > /dev/sda1 /zio vfat nodev,ro,user,noauto,unhide > > I then get the error message: "not a valid block device" > > I am using Slackware 8.1, Linux 2.4.18 . > > Bertie Coopersmith > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! > Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and > the chance of winning an Apple iPod: > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users > -- /------------------------------------+-------------------------\ |Stephen J. Gowdy | SLAC, MailStop 34, | |http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~gowdy/ | 2575 Sand Hill Road, | |http://calendar.yahoo.com/gowdy | Menlo Park CA 94025, USA | |EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Tel: +1 650 926 3144 | \------------------------------------+-------------------------/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
