[BL] USB mass storage with SW81. kernel
sindi keesan
keesan at sdf.lonestar.org
Fri Oct 21 12:17:29 EDT 2005
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, James Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, sindi keesan wrote:
>
>> were other scsi devices). But I think James is probably right that I
>> should have done sudo mount /dev/sda1 like he suggested in the first
>> place, to mount it in the right place under /mnt. We have not checked
>> the camera to see whether the files were messed up. I should have had the
>> sense to copy them off it with DOS first. But it is the 4MB disk without
>> much on it, we had that much sense at least.
>
> That's sudo mount /mnt/sda1 (not /dev/sda1, which will give an error).
> Here's some background that may help understand why. If the camera
> presents itself to the computer as a mass-storage device, and you have it
> hooked to the computer and powered on when you boot DSL, DSL will detect
> it, create a mount point AND put an entry into /etc/fstab for you. Since
> both the device file (likely /dev/sda1) AND the mount point are specified
> in /etc/fstab, you only need to tell the system to mount the mount point
> (/mnt/sda1): it already knows where to find the device file to mount
> there.
>
> James
Since /etc/fstab contains a line starting in
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive
might I want to
sudo mount /mnt/usbdrive
rather than /mnt/sda1 ?
But usb-storage seems to be causing problems and causing anything done
afterwards to crash.
This requires scsi_mod and sd_mod but doesn't modprobe take care of this?
Does DSL actually have any scsi (emulation) support?
I found some other site about USB and linux suggesting I used dc-2xx
(driver? program?) for the HP Photosmart.
I will try BL2 again some time with sd_mod before usb-storage.
Sindi
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