[Techtalk] Mounting USB devices

Andrew showwork at earthlink.net
Tue Jan 4 00:52:20 EST 2005


Marleen Garcia, 
	 One of the best sources of information I have found for
Mandrake is  irc.freenode.net  #mandrake.
	A bell in the back of my head tells me there is one other place to
write the info (found in /etc/fstab) so it stays, I just can not tell
you where that is.

	Andrew

On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 18:08:55 +0100
Marleen Garcia <d.lineate at skynet.be> wrote:

> USB devices physically added to the system:
> 
> 	- USB hub (Trust)
> 	- Memory stick (Transcend JetFlash)
> 	- Printer (HP deskjet 6122)
> 	- Card reader (Transcend) (attached to usb hub)
> 	- Mp3 player (Transcend JetFlash) (attached to usb hub)
> 	- External hard disk drive (Western Digital) (attached to usb
hub)
> 	- USB floppy disk drive (Eminent)
> 
> Mandrake 10.1 has problems yes/no with these hooked up usb devices. 
> I'll explain.
> 
> I boot up with everything attached, and harddrake2 (hardware 
> detection under Mandrake) detects the lot.
> 
> Before, I could only mount a few devices, and this seemed random 
> (first the compact flash card & the mp3 player, then the memory 
> stick & the compact flash card, and so on).
> 
> When I tried mounting any other device (whatever the system thought 
> was  device 3 and on), "mount" complained of non-existing devices. I 
> looked into /dev, and found sda-sdn, and only sda1 and sdb1, which 
> explained why it only mounted two devices. I then created devices 
> sdc1-sdn1 by copying sdc to sdc1 and so on.
> 
> 	#cp -R sdc sdc1
> 	#cp -R sdd sdd1
> 	...
> 
> I created additional mount points under /mnt & adapted /etc/fstab (*) 
> also. I could then mount the rest of my usb devices. I was so happy 
> at that point, I wrote an article on this - a little too early:
> (http://users.skynet.be/d.lineate/mbn/d/dev.html)
> 
> ( (*) There is a difference between what harddrake2 detects and what 
> is in /etc/fstab.)
> 
> The only problem that's left now is, and the reason I'm posting is, 
> by rebooting the machine, the /dev files I created disappear, the 
> file /etc/fstab is overwritten, and I can start anew!
> 
> How do I keep my /etc/fstab, and my /dev files?
> 
> Any help to solve this is appreciated!
> 
> Marleen
> 
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