Re: Can't mount pen drive

[Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com>]

Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote:
> 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.
That would seem a likely cause. Can anyone tell me what module this 
might be?

I am using a stock debian kernel package: linux-image-2.6.16-2-k7

All help appreciated.

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Marc Shapiro
mshapiro_42@yahoo.com