[ale] quick USB storage device question

Thomas Holmquist fishy at fishynet.net
Fri Jul 2 19:20:30 EDT 2004


Actually, in the case of USB thumbdrives, you would normally mount /dev/sda 
(No partition!). Mucking with Fstab on such a device is only asking for 
trouble (I have corruped a 256mb SD card by not knowing what I was doing and 
fstabing all over the place)

On Friday 02 July 2004 18:26, Dow Hurst wrote:
> /dev/sda is probably the right device if you don't have any other SCSI mass
> storage devices.  Try mounting the device directly:
>
> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
>
> and see what you get.  "lsusb" will show the usb bus info but the output
> doesn't tie the usb numbers to the SCSI device.  It should be the next
> device that wasn't assigned.
> Dow
>
> Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> > Guys, I just picked up a USB storage device at Microcenter (that place
> > rocks!) today.  When I put it in my machine, I get this dmesg output:
> >
> > usb 1-4: USB disconnect, address 2
> > hub 1-0:1.0: new USB device on port 4, assigned address 3
> > scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> >  Vendor: IC25N020  Model: ATCX04-0          Rev:  0 0
> >  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> > WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
> > USB Mass Storage device found at 3
> > usb 1-4: USB disconnect, address 3
> > hub 1-0:1.0: new USB device on port 4, assigned address 4
> > scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> >  Vendor: FUJITSU   Model: MHR2040AT         Rev:  0 0
> >  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> > WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
> > USB Mass Storage device found at 4
> >
> > How do I know what /dev/ filehandle it is?  I tried running fdisk
> > /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sda1 but no adeu.
> >
> > Am I missing something?
> >
> > Thanks in advacne!
> > -CB
> >
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