Hi all,
I am pretty sure this has been asked many times already. But I can’t seem to find my answer. So I apologize in advance if the answer is already out there.
I am trying to mount a USB flash drive on openSuse 10.3. Although I used to see my drive being auto mounted in 10.2, this does not happen here. So I tried to manually do it for now and fix the auto mounting issue later. But I have failed to do manual mount also.
When I plug in my usb drive, I check kernel message with dmesg and this is what I get:
usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 11
usb 4-1: new device found, idVendor=0930, idProduct=6545
usb 4-1: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 4-1: Product: DataTraveler 2.0
usb 4-1: Manufacturer: Kingston
usb 4-1: SerialNumber: 5B8312003667
usb 4-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Me being a newbie, I have no idea what it means. I was trying to look for why device is my flash driver so that I can mount it. I was expecting something like sda, sdb, etc kind of information so that I can do
mount /dev/sda /mnt/usb
Now, after some trial and errors, I found the following entries in under my /dev directory
usbdev4.11_ep00
usbdev4.11_ep81
usbdev4.11_ep02
does this indicate anything? (I am assuming a connection between address 11 and usb 4-1 line from the dmesg output)
Anyhow, I tried to mount the entries with
mount /dev/usbdev4.11_ep00 /mnt/usb/
and I get an error message:
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
so I try,
mount -t vfat /dev/usbdev4.11_ep00 usb/
and I get
mount: unknown filesystem type 'vfat
now why is that? I thought vfat be recognized by kernel
Please help and guide me. If this has been answered, please let m w know link of the page.
BTW, these are my lsusb output
Bus 004 Device 011: ID 0930:6545 Toshiba Corp.
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 047d:102a Kensington
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
what does it mean? does it help me to mount the drive (other than knowing that my device has been recognized by kernel)
thanks all.
Sa’ad