[wellylug] USB flash disk

[Jethro Carr]

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 20:33, Mark Signal wrote:
> I may be completely off track but I thought usb drives where treated as 
> /dev/sda1  /dev/sda2 etc.

not for me, that's my SATA hard disk. :-)



> 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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