[Wylug-help] USB memory sticks

[Gary Stainburn]

After mentioning these to one of our directors he's decided that it's
essential that he has one of these things - why doesn't matter, he-ll think
of something.

Anyway, I've got my hands on it first, so:

On Tuesday 18 November 2003 10:38 am, lists at mungewell.org wrote:
> Hi Gary,
> Most USB memory sticks will be designed as a USB Mass Storage device, and
> presumably be formated MSDOS/VFAT (the one I have is...).
>
> You'll need 'USB Core' and 'USB Storage' in your kernel, insert stick
> and then mount it with something like 'mount -t msdos /dev/sda1
> /floppy'.

I've inserted the memory stick into the USB socket andthen tried:

mount -t msdos /dev/sda1 /mnt/floppy

but it just comes back saying invalid filesystem.  If I use a different
device, e.g. /dev/sda[23] I get the same error message.

How can I check that the relevent USB stuff is in the kernel, or loadable as
modules?
How can I detect which SCSI device is being used?

>
> You'll also find that some other devices will also work quite happily
> with this method, i.e. camcorders with memory sticks built in and MP3
> players.
>
> Have fun,
> Simon
>
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:11:29AM +0000, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > has anyone got any experience/recomendations regarding the USB memory
> > sticks available from CCL - specifically the Sony Micro Vault and the
> > Freecom FM10.
> >
> > In my ignorance, I asume that the filesystem on these things is standard,
> > and therefore would be equally accessible to WinXP and Linux
> > (RH7.3+errata) systems - am I correct?
> >
> > If these are not a viable option, has anyone alternatives I can look at?
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