[Herefordshire] Automatic detection of a USB memory stick, MDK10.1c ?

[Malcolm Herbert]

ok, 

when you plug in a USB device, you can track whats happening with dmesg
(type dmesg as root user)

for example, when i plug in my Sony Cybershot (with memory stick) you
get to see the following

<--dmesg-->
hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.1-1, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x54c/0x10) is not claimed by any active
driver.
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
  Vendor: Sony      Model: Sony DSC          Rev: 4.60
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
USB Mass Storage support registered.
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 253696 512-byte hdwr sectors (130 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
 sda: sda1
usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1810
<--dmesg-->

this has mounted the memory stick in the camera as device /dev/sda1 (as
SCSI device), which mount and can see the images

Just after you plug the device in, type 'dmesg | tail -50 >
dmesg.output' and post the contents of the file, and I can have a look
at whats happening

Malc


On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 10:47, Matt Rhys-Roberts wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a USB memory stick full of stuff I'd like to copy into my 
> Mandrake PC, because I'm too ignorant of how to connect a laptop to this 
> PC via a network cable and it'd probably end up taking weeks to 
> faultfind. (I'm clueless at IP address configuring which gets me really 
> depressed.)
> 
> At present, when I plug the stick into my PC, the drive gets excited for 
> a few seconds and the stick lights up for a while, but I've no idea 
> where to look for the device in the file hierarchy, and it doesn't 
> appear as an icon on the desktop (as CDs now do!)
> 
> The usual thanks and generous beer rations await whoever can educate me 
> here. I want the memory stick to appear as a virtual drive, from which I 
> can pull the stored files and put them where I like.
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