Colin McKinnon wrote:
Hi Robert,
On Sunday 01 January 2006 23:54, Robert Barbour wrote:
The only indication I can find that the USB port is detected is when I go
into system information and it tells me the name of the memory stick -
presumably this is the 'volume label' allocated by the friend who provided
the stick.
So the physical hardware seems to be working OK. (on my SuSE 10 box, and IIRC
SuSE 9.1, I can hot plug USB memory cards - the system automaticaly mounts
them).
What does mount show?
What happens when you try to manually mount the disk (typically it will be
mapped to the first free SCSI device - e.g. /dev/sda)?
Try watching /var/log/messages while you plug it in (open a konsole window and
type in
su
(your root password)
tail -f /var/log/messages
Can you access the disk from a different machine / a different operating
system?
Since your machine is detecting the disk, this rather suggests that it doesn't
like the format of the disk (IIRC this came up on the list about a year ago -
the poster resolved the problem by reformatting as a DOS disk).
Mines uses fat32 and Ive yet to find a distro that wont read it, its
been a while since I used Suse but on Fedora it automatically mounts in
media and not in mnt. But if it isnt mounting it properly you can also
try adding a line into /etc/fstab with the details and manually mounting
it, I could explain a bit better but my head hurts too much from the new
year ;o)
Cheers
Adam
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