On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 19:03, Robin Laing wrote: > The problem was that I hadn't even mounted the stick yet. This > happened the very first time that I plugged the stick in. > > I played with autofs and the stick would mount some times and then > others it wouldn't. I just gave up as I needed to get some work done. > > I will check out your site though. I would like autofs to work. > > I think it may have something to do with changing usb devices. > > When time permits I will take another look at it. Hi Robin! I experienced your problem for more than one year. I was the only one using linux on my laptop at uni and the only usb key which was working was mine, but it took me almost 2 months to understand how to get it to work each time I want it to work.... Ok, then what is my solution to mount all the key I tried to use till now... First of all, forget about the automount. once I decided to do it by command line, it evrything started to be much more easier. Basically, there are 2 kinds of keys, the ones that will mount as /dev/sda and the ones that will mount as /dev/sda1 Basically, if you get the error: mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device Try to mount the key as /dev/sda and it should work... don't ask me why, but ... it's like that. When I asked others persons before they all tell me that /dev/sda should not be used to mount an usb key, but it proved to work for me. Thxs to this stupid mount /dev/sda or /dev/sda1 I managed to use all the usb keys I came accross... One info, it's seem that /dev/sda has to be used in presence of USB 2.0 device. Ok, that's my 2 euro Cents.... I hope that it will help you and if not sorry for this long and useless email :D Ludo btw, in gnome, there is the ability to add "disk icon" to mount them. I have one set up for /dev/sda and one /dev/sda1... when one do not work, I use the the other one... ________________________________________________________________ http://www.lubox.com - http://forum.lubox.com Email Services, How-To (Linux,PHP,...), Freeware... Come have a look, and you can even drop a msg on the forum!
