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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

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