Re: [newbie] compact flash card usb reader
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 22:47:58 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All would work I bet if I didn't get the following message: mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist anyone have an idea of how to create sda1. All the usb and scsi modules are loaded as far as I can tell. Hope Mandrakesoft is working on getting better usb support for 9.0. Any help is always appreciated. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Is it possible that you've disabled devfs? I think the usb stuff uses it and if so, that could be your problem. Joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] compact flash card usb reader
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 22:47:58 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [big snip] All would work I bet if I didn't get the following message: mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist anyone have an idea of how to create sda1. All the usb and scsi modules are loaded as far as I can tell. Hope Mandrakesoft is working on getting better usb support for 9.0. Any help is always appreciated. Maybe I missed it, but are you using supermount? I turned it off first thing after installing and usb works just fine -- mounting exactly as you have done. So one guess would be that supermount is causing problems. just a thought. -- Chris Spackman gpg: 9B6B 860E 7C06 787F 366F 5D3E 7152 DCB2 FC51 51B9 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] compact flash card usb reader
On Sunday 23 June 2002 12:33 pm, you wrote: On Sunday 23 June 2002 10:23 am, Dennis Myers did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: H, now it tells me wrong fs type, bad option,bad superblock on /dev/sda, or too many mounted file systems. I changed it to /dev/sda to see if that would overcome /dev/sda1 does not exist, but usbview shows: well mine is sda1 you might be sda0. should have said that. i agree, USB is one of the places where linux is less than intuitive. i also wish my scanner was supported :( but i so prefer it to the alternative I was poking around and usb-storage says it is scsi1 I think, here is the /proc/scsi/usb-storage-0/1 file: Host scsi1: usb-storage Vendor: Unknown Product: USB Storage Device Serial Number: None Protocol: Transparent SCSI Transport: Bulk GUID: 05e30700 Attached: Yes So I am thinking this thing should be working. Is there a stray file I need? I have the module usb-storage and usb-view and usblibs so what am I missing? Oh, I know usb works cause my HP Scanjet 5200c works like a champ. We just keep on keeping on. TIA for any more suggestions. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] compact flash card usb reader
On Saturday 22 June 2002 10:59 pm, you wrote: On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 21:30:09 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I bought a PNY compact flash card reader, usb type and had seen where several folks were able to use it on Mandrake 8.2. I tried mounting it but it is not coming up. I used mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/compactflash reply is /mnt/compactflash does not exist. What or how do I create a mount point for the card reader and how do I find out what it's device name is? Harddrake doesn't tell me, just says unknown. Hate to take it back the package is a pain to put back together. TIA for any help. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Did you actually make a directory under /mnt called compactflash? If so, your mount command should work (assuming you don't have other SCSI devices, in which case, your reader might not be sda1). Assuming your reader actually is sda1 and you have created the directory compactflash under /mnt, you can add the following line to your /etc/fstab file: /dev/sda1 /mnt/compactflash vfat noauto,user Then you can just say mount /mnt/compactflash and it should work. BTW, the noauto tells linux not to automatically mount it at startup, since it will generate an error unless the flash card is actually in it. The user allows a regular user to mount/unmount it. Joe All would work I bet if I didn't get the following message: mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist anyone have an idea of how to create sda1. All the usb and scsi modules are loaded as far as I can tell. Hope Mandrakesoft is working on getting better usb support for 9.0. Any help is always appreciated. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] compact flash card usb reader
On Sunday 23 June 2002 12:44 am, you wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 22 June 2002 10:47 pm, you wrote: On Saturday 22 June 2002 07:30 pm, Dennis Myers did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Hi all, I bought a PNY compact flash card reader, usb type and had seen where several folks were able to use it on Mandrake 8.2. I tried mounting it but it is not coming up. I used mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/compactflash reply is /mnt/compactflash does not exist. What or how do I create a mount point for the card reader and how do I find out what it's device name is? Harddrake doesn't tell me, just says unknown. Hate to take it back the package is a pain to put back together. TIA for any help. if i understand you correctly (i likely don't) just make a /mnt/compactflash directory. I did that and I get mount: fs type fs=vfat not supported by kernel. So the line I have in fstab is: /dev/sda1 /mnt/compactflash fs=vfat noauto,user 0 0 and that just doesn't feel right. Oh I had previously done the mkdir /mnt/compactflash but nothing shows up in mtab. The directory is there in /mnt but nothing in it even though the card in the reader has a couple of pictures on it. Any ideas? All help is appreciated. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com What happens when you do rpm -qa | grep hotplug ?? Civileme I get: [root@dennis dennis]# rpm -qa | grep hotplug hotplug-2002_01_14-4mdk so I guess hotplug is installed, that's good right? -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] compact flash card usb reader
On Sunday 23 June 2002 10:59 am, you wrote: On Saturday 22 June 2002 09:00 pm, Dennis Myers did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: tried mounting it but it is not coming up. I used mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/compactflash reply is /mnt/compactflash does not if i understand you correctly (i likely don't) just make a /mnt/compactflash directory. I did that and I get mount: fs type fs=vfat not supported by kernel. So the line I have in fstab is: /dev/sda1 /mnt/compactflash fs=vfat noauto,user 0 0 well the line i use in fstab for my mmc is /dev/sda1 /mnt/floppy vfat user 0 0 i think maybe you don't need the fs= bit. also i use kwikdisk to mount/unmount. it works rather well. H, now it tells me wrong fs type, bad option,bad superblock on /dev/sda, or too many mounted file systems. I changed it to /dev/sda to see if that would overcome /dev/sda1 does not exist, but usbview shows: usb-storage Speed: 12Mb/s (full) USB Version: 1.10 Device Class: 00(ifc ) Device Subclass: 00 Device Protocol: 00 Maximum Default Endpoint Size: 8 Number of Configurations: 1 Vendor Id: 05e3 Product Id: 0700 Revision Number: 1.13 Config Number: 1 Number of Interfaces: 1 Attributes: 80 MaxPower Needed: 96mA Interface Number: 0 Name: usb-storage Alternate Number: 0 Class: 08(stor.) Sub Class: 6 Protocol: 50 Number of Endpoints: 2 Endpoint Address: 81 Direction: in Attribute: 2 Type: Bulk Max Packet Size: 64 Interval: 0ms Endpoint Address: 02 Direction: out Attribute: 2 Type: Bulk Max Packet Size: 64 Interval: 0ms. The usb thing seems to be a stumbling block for the newbie who is not used to command line or knowing computers very well. I seem to have a problem with it and I've been using linux for two years now. Bummer, Any other suggestions or configs are appreciated. Thanks, -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] compact flash card usb reader
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 June 2002 10:23 am, Dennis Myers did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: H, now it tells me wrong fs type, bad option,bad superblock on /dev/sda, or too many mounted file systems. I changed it to /dev/sda to see if that would overcome /dev/sda1 does not exist, but usbview shows: well mine is sda1 you might be sda0. should have said that. i agree, USB is one of the places where linux is less than intuitive. i also wish my scanner was supported :( but i so prefer it to the alternative - -- When everyone agrees around here, it means that something must be wrong. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9FgZMBwq+ZwvIN/oRAr9gAJ9D0zX2zfDeMZ7++0pMJQgtEQB1JACfUMEm eB9kP0GIPcz9hZNkIr2mG+M= =J2N+ -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] compact flash card usb reader
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 23:00:58 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if i understand you correctly (i likely don't) just make a /mnt/compactflash directory. I did that and I get mount: fs type fs=vfat not supported by kernel. So the line I have in fstab is: /dev/sda1 /mnt/compactflash fs=vfat noauto,user 0 0 and that just doesn't feel right. Oh I had previously done the mkdir /mnt/compactflash but nothing shows up in mtab. The directory is there in /mnt but nothing in it even though the card in the reader has a couple of pictures on it. Any ideas? All help is appreciated. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 First, I think you need to remove the fs= before the vfat. Are you using the stock kernel and are you using LM 8.2? I have the PNY SmartMedia reader (not the compact flash) and under 8.1, I had to use msdos or umsdos (I can't remember which) instead of vfat, so you might try one of them. Also, although I don't think this is the problem, you might try a shorter directory name under mnt. Something 8 characters or less. Finally, and I know this is a stupid questions, so I ask for forgiveness up front, you do have the compact flash in the reader and it has been formatted by the camera, right? Joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] compact flash card usb reader
Hi all, I bought a PNY compact flash card reader, usb type and had seen where several folks were able to use it on Mandrake 8.2. I tried mounting it but it is not coming up. I used mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/compactflash reply is /mnt/compactflash does not exist. What or how do I create a mount point for the card reader and how do I find out what it's device name is? Harddrake doesn't tell me, just says unknown. Hate to take it back the package is a pain to put back together. TIA for any help. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] compact flash card usb reader
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 22 June 2002 07:30 pm, Dennis Myers did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Hi all, I bought a PNY compact flash card reader, usb type and had seen where several folks were able to use it on Mandrake 8.2. I tried mounting it but it is not coming up. I used mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/compactflash reply is /mnt/compactflash does not exist. What or how do I create a mount point for the card reader and how do I find out what it's device name is? Harddrake doesn't tell me, just says unknown. Hate to take it back the package is a pain to put back together. TIA for any help. if i understand you correctly (i likely don't) just make a /mnt/compactflash directory. - -- To live is to war with trolls -Isben shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE9FUTkBwq+ZwvIN/oRAv1TAJ9OWlViOPei5Pv2qSmYxtm/wdc0XgCbBZ4C njmHDTH3irOt+7lQCJsl++c= =rQXE -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] compact flash card usb reader
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 21:30:09 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I bought a PNY compact flash card reader, usb type and had seen where several folks were able to use it on Mandrake 8.2. I tried mounting it but it is not coming up. I used mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/compactflash reply is /mnt/compactflash does not exist. What or how do I create a mount point for the card reader and how do I find out what it's device name is? Harddrake doesn't tell me, just says unknown. Hate to take it back the package is a pain to put back together. TIA for any help. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Did you actually make a directory under /mnt called compactflash? If so, your mount command should work (assuming you don't have other SCSI devices, in which case, your reader might not be sda1). Assuming your reader actually is sda1 and you have created the directory compactflash under /mnt, you can add the following line to your /etc/fstab file: /dev/sda1 /mnt/compactflash vfat noauto,user Then you can just say mount /mnt/compactflash and it should work. BTW, the noauto tells linux not to automatically mount it at startup, since it will generate an error unless the flash card is actually in it. The user allows a regular user to mount/unmount it. Joe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] compact flash card usb reader
On Saturday 22 June 2002 10:47 pm, you wrote: On Saturday 22 June 2002 07:30 pm, Dennis Myers did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Hi all, I bought a PNY compact flash card reader, usb type and had seen where several folks were able to use it on Mandrake 8.2. I tried mounting it but it is not coming up. I used mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/compactflash reply is /mnt/compactflash does not exist. What or how do I create a mount point for the card reader and how do I find out what it's device name is? Harddrake doesn't tell me, just says unknown. Hate to take it back the package is a pain to put back together. TIA for any help. if i understand you correctly (i likely don't) just make a /mnt/compactflash directory. I did that and I get mount: fs type fs=vfat not supported by kernel. So the line I have in fstab is: /dev/sda1 /mnt/compactflash fs=vfat noauto,user 0 0 and that just doesn't feel right. Oh I had previously done the mkdir /mnt/compactflash but nothing shows up in mtab. The directory is there in /mnt but nothing in it even though the card in the reader has a couple of pictures on it. Any ideas? All help is appreciated. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] compact flash card usb reader
Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 22 June 2002 10:47 pm, you wrote: On Saturday 22 June 2002 07:30 pm, Dennis Myers did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Hi all, I bought a PNY compact flash card reader, usb type and had seen where several folks were able to use it on Mandrake 8.2. I tried mounting it but it is not coming up. I used mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/compactflash reply is /mnt/compactflash does not exist. What or how do I create a mount point for the card reader and how do I find out what it's device name is? Harddrake doesn't tell me, just says unknown. Hate to take it back the package is a pain to put back together. TIA for any help. if i understand you correctly (i likely don't) just make a /mnt/compactflash directory. I did that and I get mount: fs type fs=vfat not supported by kernel. So the line I have in fstab is: /dev/sda1 /mnt/compactflash fs=vfat noauto,user 0 0 and that just doesn't feel right. Oh I had previously done the mkdir /mnt/compactflash but nothing shows up in mtab. The directory is there in /mnt but nothing in it even though the card in the reader has a couple of pictures on it. Any ideas? All help is appreciated. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com What happens when you do rpm -qa | grep hotplug ?? Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
