Re: accessing USB memory stick

2004-02-04 Thread Jacob Langley
Hi, I know that when I got my 2 flash memory devices, I had to recompile me kernel with scsi support to be able to access them and then I could do a $ mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbhd I added it to my fstab to make life easier. When I plug my stick in I see this from my dmesg: Feb 4 17:42

Re: error message interpretation help?

2004-02-04 Thread James Miller
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The warning you are getting about the /proc/partition & /dev inconsistency > could be caused by devfs being compiled into the kernel (which would cause > /proc/partitions to use the devfs naming scheme), and either devfs being > mounted somewhere other

accessing USB memory stick

2004-02-04 Thread Karthik Vishwanath
Hello, How do I mount a usb memory stick? I do see something connected to usb on the output mount (I am running Redhat 9): $ mount | grep usb usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw) On plugging the device into the machine and looking at dmesg, shows me stuff (which I think is connected to p

Re: devfs

2004-02-04 Thread mike
mike wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: Based on past experience with mdk8.2, which used devfs and worked extremely badly for me, I'd recommend doing without. However, that's a lot easier said than done. You'll need to create static devices, and you won't be able to do this while devfs is blocking acces

Re: devfs

2004-02-04 Thread mike
mike wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the length of this reply, I was bored and felt like writing a novel. Thats quite alright, I need to have things spelled out to me. And your explanation helped me understand quite abit more of whats going on. Well, no you don't *need* to have devf