Re: USB flash memory mounting

From: Johnson David (DavidJohnson_at_Siemens.com)
Date: 04/27/04

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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 10:43:46 -0700

    On Sunday 25 April 2004 07:53 pm, Nathan Butcher wrote:

    > I inserted the stick and got told that it was da1. What I did was to
    > edit /etc/fstab and make this entry:-
    >
    > /dev/da1 /mnt msdos noauto,user,umask=0 0 0
    >
    > that didn't work. I got some error about Inappropriate file type or
    > format. Changed filetype to vfat and that didn't work either like it
    > does in Linux.

    /dev/da1 is not what you want. That's the device, but it doesn't specify
    the slice. The umass driver treats the memory stick like a SCSI
    harddrive, so your mount command should also treat it like a harddrive.
    You should be using "da1s1" or similar instead. (In UNIX terminology, a
    "slice" is roughly equivalent to a DOS primary partition.)

    David
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