How to install usb flash memory stick on RH Enterprse 3

[willing2learn]

Hi Gurus,
Please advise how I can make my Red hat Enterprise version 3
running 2.4.21-32.0.1.EL kernel to automatically mount and umount the flash usb memory stick.
Many thanks

 

[zeland]

I don't ever recall I could do that with a 2.4.x kernel. AFAIK, you'll need 2.6.x and the HAL daemon.


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[willing2learn]

Hi zeland,
But I Can't do it on fedora 3 running 2.6.9-1.667 kernel either?
I can mount as root by hand but not as normal user? ideally I would like it to mount automatically for all the users?
any ideas? Thanks for your help

 

[zeland]

I can't remember if FC3 has HAL & DBUS. FC4 does and it does what you want. Try getting HAL and see if you can make it work on FC3.


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[bamber]

Hi

You can setup RH to mount automatically without the HAL daemon, youhave to edit your /etc/fstab with something like the following depending on your environment:

# to enable a RH 9.0 pc top mount a usb device enter the following in the
# /etc/fstab as root

/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb auto noauto,user,owner,sync 0 0

# Then create the mount point

mkdir /mnt/usb

# Set the permissions to 777

chmod 777 /mnt/usb

and any user can issue the mount usb command

Under Fedora Core 3 it changed when you connect a usb device you will need to check what FC3 recognises it as, once it's inserted the fstab updates automatically, this will allways be /media/device for exammple /media/Kingston or /media/USB_DEVICE

once you know what it's called just create the mount point and then you can mount it as normal.

Bamber

 

[willing2learn]

Hi Bamber, Thanks for your time.
I tried by doing all as above ie adding the entry in /etc/fstab and chmod 777 /mnt/usb, but I get the following message after trying to mount:-

$ mount /mnt/usb
mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device



please note the usb flash drive works fine on windows xp.
any ideas?

 

[zeland]

This might mean that your flash drive is not sda1 or not detected. With your flash drive pluged in, try doing a fdisk -l as root to see what device node points to your flash drive.


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[willing2learn]

Hi Zeland/Bamber
Here is what I get from fdisk -l

root]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 2550 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 2551 4863 18579172+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 2551 4080 12289693+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6 4795 4862 546178+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda7 4081 4794 5735173+ 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order
[root@cybermax root]#

/dev/sda1 is not recognised?
any ideas?

 

[zeland]

Your system might not be detecting your flash drive or USB Mass Storage supprt is not available. After you plugin your flash drive, do a dmesg | grep -i usb. You should see something like below:

usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 5
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: USB Model: Flash Drive Rev: 1.12
usb-storage: device scan complete

If you don't get any message with regards to your USB flash drive, you may need to look into your kernel to see if USB & USB Mass Storage support is enabled.


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[willing2learn]

Hi zeland, Here is what I get for dmesg | grep -i usb

[root@cybermax root]# dmesg | grep -i usb
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe0854000, IRQ 5
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:03.0, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe0856000, IRQ 5
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:03.1, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (#2)
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe0858000, IRQ 5
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:03.2, Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (#3)
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub.c: USB hub found
ehci-hcd 00:03.3: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 2.0 Controller
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
ehci-hcd 00:03.3: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-Jan-22
hub.c: USB hub found
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
hub.c: new USB device 00:03.3-3, assigned address 2
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=2 (error=-110)
hub.c: new USB device 00:03.3-3, assigned address 3
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=3 (error=-110)
hub.c: new USB device 00:03.0-1, assigned address 2
input0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech Optical USB Mouse] on usb1:2.0
hub.c: new USB device 00:03.3-3, assigned address 4
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=4 (error=-110)
hub.c: new USB device 00:03.3-3, assigned address 5
usb.c: registered new driver serial
usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic
usbserial.c: USB Serial Driver core v1.4
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=5 (error=-110)

Zeland please note: I have no problem with a usb zip drive mounting, it is just the usb flash drive which seem not be recognised. If its the kernel that needs to be looked into please guide how I can enable or add the support for flash drives.
Many Thanks

 

[bamber]

Hi

Is the device connected on boot ?

Also i have seen it detect as hdb1 etc

Let me know, I will see what else I can think of.

Bamber