Re: [debian-knoppix] Accessing memory stick
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 11:55:14AM +0100, box191 wrote:
> I'm a newbie to Linux and Knoppix, ~7 weeks. I have Knoppix 3.3
> installed to the HDD. (I had to write my own lilo.conf to get it to
> boot though.)
>
> I can't figure out how to access the memory stick.
>
> From dmesg:
>
> Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
> scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> Vendor: Sony Model: Storage Media Rev: PROL
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB)
> sda: Write Protect is off
> sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
> WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
> USB Mass Storage device found at 4
> USB Mass Storage support registered.
> mtrr: base(0xf8000000) is not aligned on a size(0x180000) boundary
> PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:01.0
> FAT: bogus logical sector size 65535
> VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 08:01.
> FAT: bogus logical sector size 65535
> VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 08:01.
>
> Windows finds the stick, and it is formatted in vfat and it does contain data.
> I made a directory, /mnt/mem and I added this line to /etc/fstab:
>
> /dev/sda1 /mnt/mem vfat rw,noauto,user 0 0
>
> I can save to either /mnt/mem or /mnt/sda1 but what happens is that it saves
> to the HDD, and nothing ever appears on the memory stick, and I can't read
> what is actually on the stick.
This may sound too easy, but did you eventually forget to actually MOUNT
/mnt/mem after you added the /etc/fstab entry?
Also, from your kernel log, it does not look like the medium is
correctly recognized. Could it be that you bought a memory stick with a
proprietary Windows-only "password protection" mechanism? For these, you
would first have to DISABLE the password protection support (by
reformatting "without password" under Windows), before you can use it
under any other operating system.
Regards
-Klaus Knopper
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