[aklug] Re: Confused -- manually mounting usb in Debian

You can't just mount the SanDisk and ignore the U3?

My U3 drive mounts automatically on most later distros, since FC3 or so.
I end up with a 'U3 System' and a 'whatever I named the other partition.
I just ignore the U3 System. Doesn't seem to bother anything.

I occasionally get stuck doing some stuff on Windows boxes I don't own
and I find it handy having FireFox and OpenOffice handy without
installing at times.
-
Jim G

Linux User: #179129 http://counter.li.org/

On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 10:02 -0800, James Zuelow wrote:
> On Saturday 18 October 2008 01:45:57 Christopher Howard wrote:
> > Hi. I want to know how to manually mount a usb stick on my debian
> > system, but I'm a bit confused about something.
> >
> It should be fairly automatic. From your log excerpt it looks like almost
> everything is working.
>
> > [318078.341408] usb 3-6: Product: U3 Cruzer Micro
> > [318078.341409] usb 3-6: Manufacturer: SanDisk
>
> Here's a problem. Avoid these U3 drives. They have this CD-ROM image on them
> that insists on loading. If you delete the image on a Linux box and sometime
> in the future insert the key into a Windows machine that has had a U3 device
> inserted, you'll get it back. For no other reason than SanDisk thinks they
> have a right to keep putting that junk on your USB key, avoid these.
>
> (snip)
>
> >
> > However, when I try (as root) to mount these with
> > mount /dev/sda /media/usb (after creating the usb directory, of course)
> > The only message I get is 'mount: no medium found'. Same with
> > /dev/sdb... etc.
> >
> It detected the /dev/sde1 partition, but didn't mount it. Is the SanDisk
> formatted with NTFS? If so, do you have ntfs-3g or fuse installed?
>
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