usb drive in mandrake 10.1

[nocturnx]

I finally figured out how to view my windows partition in mandrake 10.1. Now im trying to figure out how to view my 512mb usb drive. I looked in the /dev/ folder but didnt see anything that looked like it. The guide i was reading said to goto /dev/hda1 but that doesnt work at all.

[cuog]

It should show up a little Icon on your desktop when you plug it in,

It may be that the drive is not being recognized by your system.

When I get home tonight i will check for you and see what the location is for the USB drive unless someone solves t for you first

[nocturnx]

hmm It didnt show up on the desktop. so then i logged out and logged back in and it was showing the drive on the desktop but when i tried to open it, it wouldnt open, it wouldnt try to open and then just quit and close. So i tried clicking on the Home icon to navigate to the /mnt/removable/ folder but Home wouldnt open either. So i logged out, pulled the usb drive out, and then logged back in. I opened Home and then plugged the usb drive in and navigated to the /mnt/removable folder and could see what was on the usb drive. Its weird, if i open Home first and then plug in the usb drive i can view whats on it, but if i plug in the usb drive and then try to view whats on it, nothing will open.

[mikeL]

Don't know if this will help, but I ran across this on linux questions, when setting up my usbdrive in slackware. (from the terminal)

I added the following to my /etc/fstab:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive vfat noauto,user, umask=0 0 0

then I did a:
modprobe usb-storage

Then create a mount point:
cd /mnt
mkdir /mnt/usbdrive

then to mount my drive I just type:
mount /mnt/usbdrive

[cuog]

Your perticular USB drive may have compatability issues with Mandrake if what mikeL just mentioned doesnt work so you may just have to deal with going the long way, i know my USB has issues with win2000 which is one of the reasons i switched to linux but by the way i hope this all works out for you

[nocturnx]

Im stuck on the very first part lol. I opened up a root console window and put in the root password and then it gives me a prompt. I put in "/etc/fstab" and i get a permission denied message. What am i doing wrong?


Also when i put in the first command from root I get a permission denied message.

[mikeL]

nocturnx all you have to do is start the console (terminal) then type the following:

su -
then it will ask for 'Roots' password

then to edit your /etc/fstab use a editor that your comfortable using (I use Emacs), Kedit is easy to use.

now you should type the following
kedit /etc/fstab "kedit being the chosen editor"

then enter from my previous post:

I added the following to my /etc/fstab: /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive vfat noauto,user, umask=0 0 0 then I did a: modprobe usb-storage Then create a mount point: cd /mnt mkdir /mnt/usbdrive then to mount my drive I just type: mount /mnt/usbdrive

this should get you up and running.

Mike

[nocturnx]

Alright got all that done. So then I did the mount command and it says the /dev/sda1 is already mount or /mnt/usbdrive is busy. But no icon appeared on the desktop like it used to so I try to open Home to get to it that way but home tries to open but doesnt. Home shows in the taskbar with the hourglass spinning next to it for a few minutes and then just disappears. So i try the mount command again and it says /dev/sda1 does not exist.

Im about to give up, im thinking its because my usbdrive is a lexar jumpdrive secure and it loads a secure program asking for a password automatically when you plug it in, so this secure program on the jumpdrive might be interferring.

Thanks Mike, Ive been up to Alpina, MI a few times on fly-aways with the national guard at the base there.

[mikeL]

nocturnx,

I ran across the forum posting, and it dosen't look to promising for your secure jumpdrive use in linux. www.linuxforums.org/forum/ntopic30201.html unless there are drivers out there for it, you may have to pick up a non-secure drive then run something like GPG or some other encryption software for linux.

What a coincidence (sp?) I was stationed in Zweibrucken '81-'83 (Nike Hercules site), and we would hop a military bus to Ramstien on the weekends to the BX (excellent stereo section). I also work out at the CRTC base here in Alpena as a civilian for Cubic Defense Applications.

Hope you get you jumpdrive figured out, good luck.

Mike

[jglen490]

Mandrake 10.1 normally installs "udev", which is a kind of universal device service and also performs hotplug services (unless that was turned off. I thought I had a problem similar to the one that nocturnx had, but as it turns out I didn't. The hotpug service will automatically run a series of scripts to set up a mount point for a USB device upon detecting the device.

Timing is everything, but if you open up a command line terminal while in KDE or GNOME, before plugging in your USB drive, and enter:

cd/mnt
ls -a

you will see what mount points exist. Then plug in the USB drive and wait until your hard drive stops working and repeat the ls -a command you should see the mnt/removable directory. You can again "cd" into the removable directory and input ls -a to list out the directory contents. If you can do the above entries, then you can do the same with your GUI file manager (i.e., Konqueror, Nautilus, etc.).

You can also see if your USB device is being detected automagically by entering the following in the command line:

su -

lsusb -a

When you do that before the device is plugged in and then again after the output from the lsusb command will show two different results -- unless the device is not at all recognizable.

[nocturnx]

Alright, after I did the first part, removable did show up once I inserted the usb drive. Then I tried the second part and it did show that it was recognizing the lexar media usb drive. I was able to view the files on the usb drive in the terminal window. Once I closed the terminal window and tried to get to it through konquerer, konquerer just stops responding when I try to open it. For some reason konquerer will not open whenever the usb drive is plugged in.

Thanks for the help jglen

[nocturnx]

It seems that its just Konqueror that stops responding once i plug in the usb drive. Because I am able to view the files on the usb drive if I use firefox as my browser. So is there a way I can set firefox as my default file browser instead of konqueror? Once ive plugged in my usb drive I am unable to use the Home, Hard Disc, and CD-Rom buttons on my desktop is my main problem, because Konqueror stops responding when trying to open them. Any ideas?

Thanks!

[nocturnx]

Oddly when I boot mandrake into gnome instead of kde it recognizes my usb fine without any troubles. It seems to be a kde problem only.