Other Help Topics :: Can't see USB flash drive

I'm running DSL from the hard disk on an old IBM Aptiva and it's running fine, except...
When I boot the machine it sees the USB port and says it is being managed by hotplug.
However, when I plug in my flash drive (and it HAS got data on it), I can't find it anywhere. Even if I boot the system with the drive plugged in, I still can't find it.
I've used emelfm and looked into every directory and subdirectory without success.
This system dual-boots DSL and Win98SE and Windoze can't see the drive either, but that's no surprise as Win98 tends to need special drivers for any USB drive, but I thought DSL would be able to handle it.
I'm running DSL 3.4 and I have 128Mb RAM and the kernel reports as Linux 2.4.26
Tony

I am writing this in DSL 3.4 on a hard drive partition, having booted up with a USB Flash drive (that has both FAT16 and ext2 partitions on it) connected, and the system has recognised them both and the mount tool can mount them. So I wonder - in what form is your flash drive formatted, by what system or was it one preformatted from new ? Does it appear in the mount table ?

Are you looking in /mnt in emelfm? It should show up as /mnt/sda1 if it's the first USB media hotplug assigns a mount. The next would be sdb1, and so on.

Did you mount it?

Sorry for the delay in answering - I'm Down Under in Western Australia where it's 8:30am on Wednesday.
Your tips were just what I needed. I didn't mount it because when I looked thru the mount icon, I thought that sda1 referred to a scsi disc and didn't go any further with it. Duh!
I'd seen sda1 before on this system and thought that IBM had put a scsi disc into it, because at one stage IBM tried to go down the scsi route. Just proves that assumptions can lead you up the garden path.
Thanks again - Im a happy DSL user now
Tony

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