[wellylug] USB flash disk

[Mark Signal]

oh well  - live and learn ..

Jethro Carr wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 20:33, Mark Signal wrote:
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>>I may be completely off track but I thought usb drives where treated as 
>>/dev/sda1  /dev/sda2 etc.
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>not for me, that's my SATA hard disk. :-)
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>>I have had a lot of problems with usb 2 on 2.4 kernels and no problems 
>>at all on 2.6 kernels
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>>hope this helps
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>>(someone jump in and correct me if I'm wrong here please)
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>>cheers
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>>Mark Signal
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>>Steven Mulvay wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>>Cheers,
>>>Steve
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