Re: usb key mount problems with AMD64 unstable

[A J Stiles <deb64@earthshod.co.uk>]

Try issuing

# modprobe usb-storage
{to load the USB storage driver; *never* *ever* compile this into the kernel, 
if it is a module then you can reset a crashed drive using rmmod usb-storage, 
if it's in the kernel and a USB drive crashes, you will hose your USB 
subsystem}
# fdisk -l
{to list available drives and partitions; look for a VFAT or MSDOS one, the 
format is hardwired into most devices so don't try to lay an ext2 FS on it}
# mount -tvfat /dev/sda1 /camera
{or wherever you want to mount it; note that it should be sda*1*  [or whatever 
letter if you have SCSI/SATA discs already],  not just sda, since you want 
the first  [and only]  formatted partition, not the whole block device 
including private areas.}

But this can go haywire if you are using udev -- you may find that it removes 
the device everytime you boot up  {it did this with my PS/2 mouse .....   
which would be very annoying, if it needed booting up more often than 
monthly}.  If this is the case, then you need to get udev to make the device 
for you automatically when the drive is plugged in.  Simply reconfiguring the 
udev package while the USB device is plugged in might well be enough.

-- 
AJS
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