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  • From: James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] USB mass storage with SW81. kernel
  • Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 10:20:20 -0500 (CDT)

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




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