USB 2.0 pendrive not detected

[Guest Romulos]

My pendrive (USB 2.0) is not detected by Mandrake 10.1. I noticed none sda device iis created too.

[VeeDubb]

This may be a very common error. If things like pen drives are not formatted with a partition table, then they won't be automounted in 10.1 Since it DID create a /dev/sda if I understand you correctly, but not a /dev/sda1 this is probably the case.

 

To access it in the short term, create a folder where you want it to mount to, say, /mnt/stick or some such non-sense. As root, enter the following command

 

mount /dev/sda /mnt/stick

 

That 'should' do the job

 

For a slightly better fix, format it with the mandrake control center partition manager, or better yet, wait for 10.2/le2k5 to come out, as it is supposed to have a fix for the no-partition table issue.

[scarecrow]

The modern way to handle USB storage is via hotplug/dbus/hal, and optionally ivman.

Best results with current kernels (2.6.10 or later).

With them there's no need to touch /etc/fstab yourself, nor use submount/supermount and all assorted oldies.

[Guest Romulos]

I tried the both way:

 

1) When I used "mount /dev/sda /mnt/removable" I got the message "mount: the special device /dev/sda doe not exist"

 

2) And I did not find the path "hotplug/dbus/hal, and optionally ivman". My used kernel is 2.6.8

 

Does anybody have another suggestion?

[scarecrow]

hotplug, dbus and hal are system daemons, not a directory!

"sudo urpmi dbus hal" (if your urpmi dirs are up-to-date), although I have no idea whaat's happening with 2.6.8.X, the most problematic 2.6.X series kernel ever...