On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 04:23:08AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 03:39:39PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > > > > > Can't you just treat it as a normal USB stick? > > > e.g. > > > Plug it in > > > select connect to PC on phone. > > > then > > > # mount /dev/sdb /mnt > > > (get some error msgs) > > > > It gives me this no medium found on /dev/sdb > > Did you select "connect storage to PC" on phone like I said? > (That has to be successful before trying anything else!) > You have to enable "USB debugging" on the phone, for Gingerbread it's > under settings ---> applications ---> Development before "connect > storage to PC" will be allowed. > > THEN > # mount /dev/sdb /mnt > > You should see something similar to: > [4247732.683920] sd 100:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present > [4247732.690689] sd 100:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through > [4247732.700447] sd 100:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present > [4247732.703418] sd 100:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through > [4247732.827436] FAT-fs (sdb): invalid media value (0x00) > mount: you must specify the filesystem type Erm... What's the point of mounting the whole disk when you seem to already know that it's going to fail? If you just need to get the kernel to read the partition table, then try "hdparm -z /dev/sdb" Teaching people to do something that you expect to result in an error seems a bad idea to me. > > > > then > > > # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt > >
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