Re: Can't access usb
On 7/28/06, Mark Grieveson <dg135@torfree.net> wrote:
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> Before migrating from Mandriva 2006 to Debian 3.1 r2 I copied everything on /home/robin to an external hard drive which connects to my PC through a usb port. I had planned to copy it back to my hdd after the Debian install was complete.
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> I now have Debian installed but it doesn't recognize my usb port. I have tried to find it using konqueror and from a terminal as su without success.
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> Can someone please help me to recover this information.
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> Robin
What kernel are you using? I feel if you upgrade to a 2.6.8 kernel
image, and install gnome-volume-manager (with hal), that your USB drive
will be found. I'd recommend the default (gnome) desktop too. Then
your USB drive will likely just appear on your desktop (you'd need to
reboot after installing this stuff, though, at which point, I'm guessing
that your USB drive will be found, and shown right on your desktop.
Is that really supposed to happen?
I previously tried to install pmount and hal, and in so doing
uninstalled hotplug. Don't ask me, that's what apt-get says. Well
this wrecked my xwindows, so I undid it. I've searched high and low
for new things to try. This does seem to be like problem #1 that
people have.
I have an AGNULA kernel, 2.6.14-1-multimedia.
usbview shows the flash drive in red. tail -f /var/log/messages does
indicate that the usb thing is plugged in, typically to two addresses
each time.
mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb tells me "not a valid block device"
mount -t usbfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb says nothing, but I have meaningless
files in /mnt/usb; a file called devices and folders 001 and 002,
which have files named 001 and 002 in them.
I've never heard of usb drives just showing up when you plug them in
in Linux. Is that for real?
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