[olug] Documentation for Cruzer Mini's

[Jake Churchill]

What Nathan said is correct.  It will automatically recognize the flash  
drive.  The problem comes in that when you pull it out, it stays  
mounted and doesn't remount when you put it back in.  The solution is  
mount /dev/sda1 as he said.


On Nov 21, 2004, at 10:15 AM, Don Kauffman wrote:

> Got it up and running. Thanks to all who responded!
>
> The documentation provided was a big help, Specifically --
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/ 
> Flash-Memory-HOWTO.html
> -- gave me enough confidence to get it up and running. 
>
>
>
> Don K.
>
> On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 03:38, Christopher Cashell wrote:
>> At Sat, 20 Nov 04, Unidentified Flying Banana Don Kauffman, said:
>>> I'm looking for some good documentation or help for setting up,  
>>> mounting
>>> and using SanDisk Cruzer Mini's under Linux (more specifically under
>>> suse 9.1).
>>
>> I haven't specifically used the Cruzer USB flash drives, and SuSE  
>> isn't
>> my distribution of choice, but if you have a recent Linux kernel  
>> (2.6.x,
>> or most 2.4.x) then you probably have all you need already (The Linux
>> kernel contains 'native' support for USB flash drives).
>>
>> Just make sure that you have your kernel compiled for USB (I'd be
>> surprised if SuSE doesn't support it out of the box).  There's three
>> modules you need, the low-level USB host driver, usbcore, and
>> usb-storage.
>>
>> To see if you're setup, start with 'cat /proc/modules | grep "usb"'  
>> and
>> look for 'usb-storage'.  If you don't see it, Try typing 'sudo  
>> modprobe
>> usb-storage'.  Chances are that'll do the trick.
>>
>> Now all you have to do is use mount to mount the USB drive.
>>
>>> Does anyone know of any good howto's? There is some help available on
>>> help forums but no one specific document that I can find. I searched  
>>> the
>>> linux ldp, Linux Orbit, linux gazzette, linus forum, linux journal.
>>
>> Do a search for 'linux usb flash drive' and you'll find quite a bit.
>> Here's a few specific entries that looked decent:
>>
>> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/ 
>> html_single/Flash-Memory-HOWTO.html
>> http://www.extremetech.com/print_article2/0,2533,a=59292,00.asp
>>
>>
>>> Don Kauffman
>
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