USB Mass Storage Device
Using Mandrake 10.1, with four USB ports. Attempting to access a USB hard disk.
Based on the little I know about such things, most USB memory devices are treated as a removable SCSI drive. When a device is detected it's supposed to be represented in /proc/scsi/usb-storage-0, right?
However, there is no /dev/sda. So I created one (in root) mknod /dev/sda b 8 0.
The USB device file system /proc/bus/usb/ exists. However, less /proc/bus/usb/devices does not indicate any mass storage devices :/
Mount command does generate; none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw).
The command; mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/memstick generates mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
Based on the little I know about such things, most USB memory devices are treated as a removable SCSI drive. When a device is detected it's supposed to be represented in /proc/scsi/usb-storage-0, right?
However, there is no /dev/sda. So I created one (in root) mknod /dev/sda b 8 0.
The USB device file system /proc/bus/usb/ exists. However, less /proc/bus/usb/devices does not indicate any mass storage devices :/
Mount command does generate; none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw).
The command; mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/memstick generates mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
