I have a usb drive (solid state 128 mb) that works fine in windows xp, but i also wish to use it in linux to save files/docs on.

However, when I plug it into any of my front usb ports, red hat basically ignores it and instead checks the floppy drive.

What's the deal with this? Do I need additional drivers for this? (knoppix reconized it fine). if it is driver-related, where can I get the driver and how do I install it?



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Run lsmod
If you don't see usb-storage, usbcore, and usb-uhci in the modules running, you need to modprobe them.

Then add this to the /etc/fstab


Then run
$ mount /dev/sda

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One more question: How?

A walkthrough would be much appreciated.

I'm still relatively new to linux.


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• Open a terminal
• type 'lsmod'
• Read the output and look for the words usb-storage, usbcore, and usb-uhci.
• If you don't see them, modprobe them. Example: "modprobe usb_storage"
• Once you can see them with 'lsmod', add the line to your fstab like Gandalf said. This can be done with any text editor, such as vim or nano. If you are new, you may want to use kwrite or gedit. You will need root privilages. Go to a terminal and type:
  
  Code:

  su
  {your root password}
  vim /etc/fstab

  
  Replace vim with your favorite editor. then add the lines gandalf said.
• To access the drive and read it's contents:
  
  Code:

  cd /mnt/usbfd
  ls -Rlh * | less

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If you're not going to be mounting it all the time, you don't even have to put it in fstab. I just mount mine when I need it, like:

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /backup

or something

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Try

or


Also try running it as root rather than user or vica versa...
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From this site:


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*sigh*

The USB support is installed by default in RH9. Just make a new folder under /mnt (mkdir /mnt/usbkey), and mount the key to it (mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbkey). When your done, umount it (umount /mnt/usbkey).

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Oh. User friendlyness? What's that?

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Well, maybe we too often do things the 'hard way' when we don't have to. I'm just used to doing things manually... I'm used to Slackware and Gentoo.

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SuSE ships with an fstab that automounts everything. One of the first things I do on install is rip that thing out so I can mount everything manually.

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Why? it just wastes time you could spend being productive. One thing that I like about windows is that it does all the stupid mundane things automaticaly so I can focus exclusively on the important things.



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Why? it just wastes time you could spend being productive.

Err, no. I mount a device when I need it, and I umount it when I dont need it. Automating the process only clutzes things up.

One thing that I like about windows is that it does all the stupid mundane things automaticaly so I can focus exclusively on the important things.

Thats one of the things about Windows that bugs the crap out of me. It automatically mounts removable media the moment you insert it... I dont know about the rest of you, but Id rather my system mount a volume when I need access to it, rather than the moment it gets notified of it...

What you call "stupid" and "mundane" I call "one of computings simple pleasures". Yeah, its weird, but it gives me some peice of mind -- knowing that I control what gets mounted, when, and where.

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Well, I always mount things manually, save my primary partitions. I tried supermount, but it kept on skrewing up. For example, Point2play for Winex wouldn't recognize drives mounted by supermount. It only takes a little more time to type "mount /mnt/dvd". (assuming it's in your fstab)

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You know, every time someone mentions Fstab, i visualize a bloody dagger.

What's wrong with having everything mounted at the same time? It shouldn't slow the computer down any (if you notice a drop in performance, you need a new computer) and having everything automount makes it accessable at any given time.

I'm a light-duty linux user. I'm learning it now so i'll be ready for the dark future when palladium and TC becomes entrenched. (all the stupid morons out there in the world will happily buy into MS propaganda, and by the time everyone wakes up, it will be too late. )

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Well, I woudn't mind having the computer auto-mounting my devices if it worked correctly. I just don't trust supermount to do it correctly. It just breaks too many programs. Besides, I don't want it eating away my CPU trying to mount gigabytes of space on a USB drive if I don't even want to use it that day.

I think fstab means "File System Tab". I always say it in my head "F Stab" and I too can't help but visualize a bloody dagger.

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