usb memory card

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: usb memory card
started by: fmollega

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Posted by fmollega on Jan. 02 2007,17:21

Hi there, newbie here and I'm having trouble accessing usb memory card. In windows it's easy, just plug it in and it shows up an another drive. Wondering how it works in Linux and what I have to do to retrieve files from it.
Thanks in advance

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Posted by mach085 on Jan. 03 2007,07:39

u hav 2 mount the usb drive first.. the name has to be sda1. i'm also newbie here

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Posted by roberts on Jan. 03 2007,15:51

If you upgrade DSL to the latest version, then too, an after boot plugin of usb device will be detected and you can mount it via the mount tool.

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Posted by fmollega on Jan. 03 2007,16:57

Thanks for the quick response.
Executing "mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/memstick" shows "mount: dev/sda1 is not a valid block device"

Some other checks I did:
Executing "mount" shows "/proc/bus/usb on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw, devmode=0666"
Executing "less /proc/scsi/usb-storage-0/1" shows usb attached.
Executing "ls /proc/bus/usb" shows "001   device   drivers"

Linux 2.4.24 is the kernal version.

Any thoughts?

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Posted by AncientRelic on Jan. 05 2007,20:58

Another bump for this because I'm getting the exact same thing? Help a couple of DSL newbs out?

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