USB key on IBM Thinkpad - Still no luck.

Graham Martin gcmartin at tsn.cc
Thu Aug 11 10:40:47 UTC 2005


> m>:
> 
> > 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.
> 
Hi, If you are using Ubuntu try this, create a flash directory 
in the media directory /media/flash
and a line in /etc/fstab. 
/dev/sda1  /media/flash  vfat,ext2,hfsplus  noauto,users,dev  0  0
or this
/dev/sda1  /media/flash  auto  noauto,user 0  0

I hope this is of help to you
Cheers Graham







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