Re: Jumpdrive Not A Block Device?
On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:29:09 -0400, "Thomas H. George" <tom@tomgeorge.info> said:
> On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 10:05:37PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote:
>> On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 12:41:00 -0400, "Thomas H. George"
>> <lists@tomgeorge.info> said:
>>
>>> With Etch it is recognized as SCSI device sdb and located at
>>> /dev/sg1. It cannot be mounted, mount fails with a message that
>>> /dev/sg1 is not a block device.
>>
>> The sg* devices are generic SCSI devices. Each SCSI device has an
>> associated sg device that is different from the device that you would
>> normally use to access the drive, and may provide some extra
>> functionality. If the drive is recognized as device sdb, then you
>> should be mounting /dev/sdb*.
> I would if I could. When the drive is hotplugged it is assigned to
> /dev/sg1 not /dev/sb1. That is the problem.
It *only* gets assigned to /dev/sg1? On my machine, when I just tried
plugging in my USB drive, it gets assigned to *both* /dev/sda and
/dev/sg0.
Does dmesg say anything useful? How do you know it's recognized as
device sdb if there's no /dev/sdb?
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