LM91 can't mount USB FlashCard reader

[Guest gervaldi]

With LM9.0 (and other distributions -including gentoo) I had no problems to mount my usb flashcard reader (Sandisk SDDR-09).

But... with LM9.1 just can't... I have tried using parameters of LM90 in the fstab file with no luck. The console where I launch the mount command (as root) freeze, if later I open Konqueror it freezes, the entire system become unstable, even I have to shutdown with the button in the case.

My system has a CDROM, a CDWriter ide, 1 HD.

Other things work fine.

 

Here is a copy of my fstab:

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/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1

none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0

/dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2

none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdb,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/cd /mnt/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0

 

#this is what I added

 

/dev/sda1 /mnt/sandisk auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,kudzu,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0,exec 0 0

 

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What is wrong???

It always worked, why not now???

 

Note: if I don't add the line /dev/sda1........ another errors appears telling me it can't recognize the filesystem, to many mounting points,etc...

[MottS]

Remove the line in your fstab and then reboot with the device connected. Now try to mount is manually as root like that:

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/sandisk

If it doesn't work then post the output of the following commands here so that we better understand what is going on.

cat /proc/bus/usb/devices

dmesh | grep usb

[mtweidmann]

make sure that /mnt/sandisk exsists before running the command.

[Guest gervaldi]

Well, I found on another site a similar problem and a solution (not perfect but...)

Booting the system with a card INSIDE the card reader makes an entry in fstab, and create a /mnt/memory_card directory, then mount the disk using as root mount /mnt/memory_card, for same reason it won't work always, you receive a weird error about the mounting, but if I try several times the command, eventually the mount command works fine and I'm able to read the card.

After 3 reboots with the card inside, the mount command worked in the first try. Something strange is going on here. But works...

I will keep you informed.