Where is my USB-stick?

Forum: USB booting
Topic: Where is my USB-stick?
started by: kabo

Posted by kabo on Sep. 18 2006,17:32

Hi,

I want to install DSL on my USB-stick.
I can see it in /proc/bus/usb/devices
But where in /dev is it?
Is there a way to find out?

/Kabo

UPDATE:
using
dmesg | grep scsi -A 3
I found out that my USB-stick is at /dev/scsi2
But when I try to install DSL to /dev/scsi2 it says "/dev/scsi2 not supported by hdparm" and "/dev/scsi21: No such file or directory".
So now what?

UPDATE 2:
If I mount /dev/scsi2 to /mnt/pendrive/ it seems to point to /proc/bus/usb it contains the same files anyway...
*very confused*

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Sep. 18 2006,19:55

Usually mounting /dev/sdXx to /mnt/sdXx is where usb pens are used.
fstab and directories should be autocreated with the pen in place, so you can just mount the directory.

You could try

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ls /mnt/sd*

Posted by kabo on Sep. 18 2006,20:42

Nothing starting with sd in /mnt
Not in fstab either. But I did find

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/proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw,devmode=0666 0 0

in /etc/mtab. Does that give a clue?

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Sep. 19 2006,02:19

That just means you have a usb bus afaik.

I suppose you don't have your pendrive partitioned yet?

Posted by kabo on Sep. 19 2006,07:47

Well, I have stuff on it so I assume that it's partioned (1 partion).

EDIT:
On startup I see

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Checking for myDSL apps... FAT: bogus logical sector size 55438
VFS: Can't fin a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:05
modbprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module efs
Done.
INIT: Entering runlevel: 5
FAT: bogus logical sector size 55438
VFS: Can't fin a valid FAT filesystem on dev 03:05
modbprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module efs
usb-storage: host_reset() requested but not implemented

Does that help?

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Sep. 19 2006,22:45

Yea, so that format is not supported...

if it's actually supposed to be FAT then it could be slightly corrupted - you could do use mount -t <type> to try to force it though.