Fedora Core and Lexar JumpDrive Sport USB Flash Drive

[Willem van der Walt<willem@top.health.gov.za>]

Funny as it might sound, I have had one of these thet worked when mounted 
without a partition number.
ie. mount -tvfat /dev/sdb /mnt/floppy
hth
Regards Willem


On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Mailing List wrote:

> Hello Everybody,
>
>   I am trying to get Lexar JumpDrive Sport USB Flash Drive (512 MB)
> to work properly on my Fedora Core 1 system.  I am not having any
> luck.  The same Lexar Flash Drive however works perfectly fine on a
> Redhat 7.2 system (using mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash).
>
>   I spent most of the day googling for some sort of  clue on how I
> could fix this but couldn't find anything.
>
>   My kernel version is 2.4.22-1
>
>    I tried to mount the Flash Drive as such:
>
>      mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/flash
>
>    (the flash directory under mount was already created)
>
>     I got the following error:
>
>     mount: /dev/sdb1 is not a valid block device
>
>      I didn't use sda1 thru 3 as they are already mounted (as /boot,
> / , and /swap via my SCSI harddrive)
>
>      When I run dmesg after attaching the flash card I get the
> following message (this might be helpful, but I don't know what to do
> with it)
>
>       hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-2, assigned address 14
>       usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
>       usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=14 (error=-110)
>
> When I run lsusb after the flash card is attached I get the following
>
> [root at xxxxxxxx]# lsusb
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
>
>   I can't recall the model of the motherboard (how would I find this
> out under KDE?).  It is a dual processor PIII machine.
>
>   If anybody has any ideas of what I can try to get this Flash card
> to work (or an explanation of why it won't work) it would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
>   Do I need to give more information to troubleshoot this?
>
> Regards,
>   Roman
>
>
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