First, look at dmesg to be sure it's getting assigned to /dev/sda (it most 
likely is if there's no other scsi drives in the system).  Assuming it's 
there, try doing "fdisk -l /dev/sda", and then mount it.  I haven't yet 
figured out why the 2.6 kernel often doesn't detect the media on it's own 
like 2.4 did, but running fdisk -l forces it to scan the device.  I'm sure 
there's a far more graceful solution, but I haven't bothered looking for 
it yet. (-=

 	--Nick


On Sun, 19 Sep 2004, Steve Holmes wrote:

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> I'm having trouble mounting my USB mass storage devices with my linux
> 2.6.6 kernel.  I have the hotplug support compiled into my kernel and
> the hotplug script, /etc/rc.d/rc.hotplug seems to be working fine.
> What happens when I do a 'cdrecord -scanbus', I can see that my USB
> device does get registered as a valid SCSI device and appropriately
> assigned something like 0,0,0 ... and the manufacturer is listed and
> all that.  But when I try and mount the thing as 'mount -t vfat
> /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb, I keep getting a message that /dev/sda1 is not a
> valid block device.  I also tried other devices such as /dev/sdb1,
> sdc1... but same results.  I was able  to earlier get these things
> mounted after rebooting the machine with the device already plugged in
> but now that doesn't work anymore.  I dohave to admit I moved this all
> over to a new mother board with new hardware so that could complicate
> things a bit but still, How can I figure out the linkage between the
> valid USB mass storage device, SCSI and a valid mount device?
>
> - --
> HolmesGrown Solutions
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