mounting a usb thumb drive

Man-wai Chang mwchang
Sat Dec 11 07:05:14 PST 2004


>> Under Win2k, it mounted its harddisk partition and I saw 128M of disk
>> Under Linux, however, mount /dev/sdb gave me the floppy drive, which is
>> readonly.
> Yup, plug it in and read the messages that the USB drivers put there and mount 
> the correct drive...

problem solved. I revealed the /var/log/messages and found that the USB 
DIsk Pro were detected as 2 SCSI devices. /dev/sda1 is the harddisk 
partition while /dev/sdb is the floppy drive. Thank all of you.


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