[wellylug] USB flash disk

Mark Signal mark at databackup.co.nz
Mon Nov 29 07:33:17 NZDT 2004


I may be completely off track but I thought usb drives where treated as 
/dev/sda1  /dev/sda2 etc.
I have had a lot of problems with usb 2 on 2.4 kernels and no problems 
at all on 2.6 kernels

hope this helps

(someone jump in and correct me if I'm wrong here please)

cheers

Mark Signal

Steven Mulvay wrote:

> Hi all, how are you?
> How do I mount a usb flash disk under Linux? Will I need to obtain a 
> driver for it first? How do I know what each of my usb ports are named 
> as on my system? (eg what should I write for the /dev/ section of the 
> mount command) Unfortunately my ability to solve many problems hinges 
> on whether or not I can successfully mount and write to a flash disk. 
> Thank you very much for your time.
>  
> Cheers,
> Steve




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