USB Pen Drive Crisis

[Robin Laing]

Wolfgang wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 01:08, Adam Voigt wrote:
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> [snip]
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> I agree, but the documentation (For the device mentioned), ran through
> the procedure, of putting on a partition etc (And it worked by the book,
> once I got it formatted correctly). The main problem was to get Linux to
> mount it in the first place.
> 
> Wolf
> 

I received a USB stick yesterday for work and I was working with it 
and trying to get it to mount.  It was being recognized under 
/dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1.  At first I could mount it under /dev/sdb1 
with RW access.  Later while trying to get it to automount using 
autofs, it changed to only /dev/sda1 with no mention of /dev/sdb in 
any log file.  This threw me for a loop for a couple of hours.

I feel that the problem for device driver was due to a reboot 
(accidently unmounted my home directories using automount).  I had a 
usb camera connected to the computer earlier and it used /dev/sda1.

I am going to work with this some more.  BTW I did have automounting 
working when I left work yesterday.

-- 
Robin Laing