Subj : Re: Problem with memory flash drive
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Eric Wilhelm
Date : Sat Jul 03 2004 04:35 am

On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 12:59:38 -0700, Juan Gabito wrote:

> 2.4 (I
> think) kernel. I plug it at my computer a give this command to the
> shell: mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/sda1. Taht command gave me an
> error. The brand of the dirve is Ad&Security
> (http://adnsecurity.com/english/), so if anyone has one of those
> working in Linux, or has an idea of what can of problem i have, I
> would be grateful with your help.

try 'uname -a' to find out what kernel you are running

lsmod to see if you have the usb-storage driver loaded

are you running hotplug?

tail -f /var/log/messages when you plug it in to see if it is actually
getting assigned to /dev/sda

fdisk -l /dev/sda to see if the partition is recognized.

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