Mounting usb device

Forum: Laptops
Topic: Mounting usb device
started by: corpselaurel

Posted by corpselaurel on Mar. 21 2006,19:49

Sorry for the noob questions - I have searched. 贌ow do I mount a usb device?

I have a sabrent usb multi card reader and I plugged in a cf card. 狢 just have no idea where to even start?

I think I might want to do a usb drive install when I get more familiar with this. 狢 want to purchase one to support DSL. 狢 assume that since my cf card is through my usb port it should mount like a usb pen drive - trouble is I don't know how to do that either. 狢 hate to be one of those people....

BTW, I am running on a toshiba tecra and just got < this > issue resolved.

Posted by anaconda on Mar. 22 2006,16:50

I have used a USB multi card reader succesfully with DSL And even installed DSL to a 64MB CF-card.

Few things that you should do:

1. connect the CF-card to the reader before you connect the USB card reader to the computer. (dont know if this step is really necessary, but this is what I do.. try this first and experiment later. )

2. Wait a few seconds and mount the USB card reader. with emelfm. Go to /mnt and select sda1, right-click the sda1 and select mount. If it doesnt work, try the same with sdb1 and sdc1

If it worked you can access your CF-card from /mnt/sda1

If that didn't work try manual mounting. Open A terminal
and write:

Code Sample

sudo su
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1

and you should find your CF from /mnt/sda1
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anaconda

Posted by mogand on April 06 2006,06:06

Thanks for your help. I had the same problem with my 128M CF card on P4 2.8G 512M PC. When I put it in at USB port, all things freezed to stop - mouse pointer freeze, even Ctr+Alt+Del didn't work. After searching, found "anaconda's" help and through #2 I solved it.
What I want to add to that is I changed my BIOS not using USB keyboard/mouse. A bit strange but it heldped my freezing problem and now I can read and write on the card at /mnt/sd5.