auto-mounting memory stick

[Jan Kokoska]

On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 06:37 -0500, Sam Folk-Williams wrote:
> I'm pretty noob when it comes to things like this, so I could use some
> help. How would I figure out where the card reader/memory stick is in
> /dev? Or, how can I go about mounting it manually?

A friend of mine experienced the same problem with USB flash mp3 player
a few days ago. And the kernel won't detect it at all... there is either
something wrong with kernel (if new), or his setup.

Lets debug the issue first: "tail -f /var/log/messages" on your console,
now insert the USB device and you should see new messages coming. If
they do, look for sda/sdb in the output, tells you what device you can
mount.

My USB flash formatted in MS Win (back when I cared) had no partition
table.. so if above went fine, I could mount it directly by
"mount /dev/sda /mnt/usb". First goes device, second mount point, if it
asks for type, "-t vfat" is usually what you want to add for USB.

If anything of the above fails, send us debug output, "dmesg", "lsusb -
vvv", "lspci -vvv", "uname -a" .. that should do it.

Automounting comes next if this works.

Regards,
Jan