I have 3 scandisk drives that do not mount as U3 devices in ubuntu, and
debian desktops. since I used the U3 uninstaller it does not auto mount on
anything..
Richard
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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