USB key on IBM Thinkpad - Still no luck

[René L. Reingard]

Am 11.08.2005, 03:16 Uhr, schrieb Barry Tice <python at pointcontrol.com>:

> Magnus --
> Thank you for the wild shot, but I'm afraid this missed the target, too.  
> It doesn't seem to have made any difference. The USB flash drive is  
> still not showing up under Computer.
>
> A friend suggested I modify /etc/fstab to include:
> /dev/sda1  /mnt/flash  vfat,ext2,hfsplus  noauto,users,dev  0  0
>
> and creating the /mnt/flash directory. I've done that, but when I try to
> mount it using mount /mnt/flash, or by double-clicking the flash icon  
> that appeared under Computer, I get this error message:
> mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist

I would suggest try STOP and START of Hotplug. At least it worked for me,  
when the machine truly was unable to mount anything at the USB ports.

1. $ cd /etc/init.d
2. $ sudo ./hotplug stop
3. wait a few seconds
4. $ sudo ./hotplug start

anyhow, try it, I am not a crack.
regards,
René