The continuing saga of my USB memory key

[Torsten Curdt]

Ben Novack wrote:
> I ran demsg, but I can't post its contents because I've got no way to
> get anything off of Ubuntu - I have no network access because I can't
> get to neccessary packages on my USB key, which is the whole problem.
> 
> When I plug in my USB key or external HD, it's seen and recognized
> with scsi emulation at sda - but it's not mounted, and my newbie
> attempts to manually mount (sudo mount /dev/sda /mnt/usbdrive) lead to
> complaints that the mountpoint doesn't exist.
> 
> Any ideas, or specific things I should look for?

You should see something like this:

  sb 4-1: new high speed USB device using address 2
  Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
  scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
    Vendor: STF       Model: Flash Drive 2.0   Rev: 2.00
    Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
  USB Mass Storage device found at 2
  usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
  USB Mass Storage support registered.
  SCSI device sda: 512000 512-byte hdwr sectors (262 MB)
  sda: Write Protect is off
  sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
  sda: assuming drive cache: write through
   /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
  Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0

After that look for the partition table:

  $ fdisk /dev/sda

  Command (m for help): p

  Disk /dev/sda: 262 MB, 262144000 bytes
  16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 1000 cylinders
  Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes

     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
  /dev/sda1   *           1         999      255728    6  FAT16

Then you know you need to mount /dev/sda1 (as ususal for usb sticks)

cheers
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Torsten