Thank you that kind of seemed to work for me as well. The only catch is that only root can mount the drive which i should be able to change the permissions. When I do attempt to mount the drive I get the following: root@localhost etc]# mount /dev/sda1 mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device Can you help me with this please? Thank you On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 21:31, Jim Cornette wrote: > John Wendel wrote: > > >I just got a SanDisk CRUZER 256MB USB memory thingy. It no workey! > > > >The USB is on a VIA 8235 chip if that matters. > > > >Could some of you gurus take a look at these messages and give me a > >clue about what I need to do to get this device working. I suspect > >that I'm missing a module, but I can't figure out what I need. > > > >Sorry about the size of this messages. I've trimmed out all the stuff > >that seemed irrelevant, but I didn't want to lose something > >important. > > > > > >Thanks, > > > >John > > > > > > > > > This part seems to be saying that it is on /dev/sda (the whole hard > drive is this) and is most likely /dev/sda1 (first partition on /dev/sda) > > Basically, create a directory to mount the stick on. mkdir /dev/memstick > then add an entry like this to your /etc/fstab file. > > /dev/sda1 /mnt/memstick vfat > noauto,owner,rw 0 0 > > Then to mount the disk by typing one of the two following commands: > > mount /dev/sda1 > > or > > mount /mnt/memstick > > There are different options to add to the part of the entry of vfat can > be different to get the device working for each user. Check "man mount" > and "man fstab" for the options needed for each command and file. > > Jim > > Dec 22 20:11:21 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 512000 512-byte > hdwr > sectors (262 MB) > >
