On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 02:13, Charles Muller wrote: > On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 23:37, shane wrote: > > > do you have an external drive of any kind? i have a MMC reader for getting > > digital photos off my camcorder that mandrake found and setup, but it fails > > the first mount as USB is not running yet when it trys to mount it. thus > > it reports a failure. after USB is loaded it mounts it, again automatic, > > before the boot finishes. > > Yes, I have an external USB hard drive. It is listed during the > installation process, but does not seem to be registered after boot up. > > I have followed Brian's advice with fstab and mount, but I am not very > well able to decipher the results. It's a lot to ask anyone to look > through, but here is what comes out: > > > [chuck@localhost chuck]$ cat /etc/fstab > > /dev/hda8 / ext2 defaults 1 1 > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda11 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 > /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount > dev=/dev/hdc,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 > /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount > dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 > /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount > dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 > 0 > /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 > /dev/sda5 /mnt/win_c2 vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 > /dev/hda6 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 > /dev/hda7 /mnt/win_e vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 > /dev/hda5 /opt ext2 defaults 1 2 > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda9 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 > /dev/hda10 /var ext2 defaults 1 2 > /dev/hda12 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > > [chuck@localhost chuck]$ mount > > /dev/hda8 on / type ext2 (rw) > none on /proc type proc (rw) > none on /dev type devfs (rw) > none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620) > none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) > /dev/hda11 on /home type ext2 (rw) > /mnt/cdrom on /mnt/cdrom type supermount > (ro,dev=/dev/hdc,fs=iso9660,--,iocharset=iso8859-1) > /mnt/cdrom2 on /mnt/cdrom2 type supermount > (ro,dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,--,iocharset=iso8859-1) > /mnt/floppy on /mnt/floppy type supermount > (rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850) > /dev/hda1 on /mnt/win_c type vfat > (rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850) > /dev/hda6 on /mnt/win_d type vfat > (rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850) > /dev/hda7 on /mnt/win_e type vfat > (rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850) > /dev/hda5 on /opt type ext2 (rw) > /dev/hda9 on /usr type ext2 (rw) > /dev/hda10 on /var type ext2 (rw) > none on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw,devmode=0664,devgid=43) > /dev/sda5 on /mnt/win_c2 type vfat > (rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850) > > > Once again, thanks. > > Chuck > This all looks OK to me - I think Shane has probably got the diagnosis right and it's the USB device. Now, how to fix it?
Brian
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