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Re: Can't mount pen drive



Greg Folkert wrote:
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 08:43 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote:
[snippage]
That was probably copied from the Sarge installation that used to be on this box. I thought that I had used the pen drive since I converted to Etch, but it is possible that I had not. If so, then where should I check to find the correct drive designation to use since dmesg does not give me that information?

I don't even have ANY fstab entries for things like thumb drives or
card-readers.

Do you have these packages installed?

        hal udev dbus pmount cryptsetup hal-device-manager eject

Its all I have and the system auto-magically auto-mounts them. Any deps
should be auto-magically installed. And I am also running 2.6.18 on my
daughter's machine and she has friends come in and reads their stuff
without problems.

So, mayeb you have all these... you might want to reinstall them with or
at least extract the packages somewhere (safe) and look at the configs
and maybe see any problem.

It looks to me as if you're missing the module that will create the /dev/sda (or whatever) device. I had this same problem with a custom-build kernel where I had stripped down a SCSI thing and it wouldn't work. Recompiled the same kernel with this extra module and voilà: life was beautiful again.

Since I am not at home right now and I'm stuck in windoze at work, can't help you any further. But that might give you some direction....

Cheers,
Cassiano Leal



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