On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:45:07 -0400
"Radhika S" <radhika.sambamurti@gmail.com> wrote:


> 
> Also, I tried mounting my USB drive but failed.
> 
> My dmesg shows this:
> 
> usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
> uhub0 at usb0
> usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0
> uhub1 at usb1
> usb2 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0
> uhub2 at usb2
> usb3 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
> uhub3 at usb3
> sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <usb2.0, Flash Disk, 2.00> disk
> removable sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <usb2.0, Flash Disk, 2.00>
> disk removable
> 
> I get:
> 
> bash-3.1# mount -t msdos /dev/sd0b /mnt
> mount_msdos: /dev/sd0b on /mnt: Device not configured
> 
> I guess I have to newfs my drive before mounting it (even though it
> has msdos files on it).
> 
If you do that, you'll erase everything on it...  However, I suspect
that the problem is that you tried to mount partition b.  Run

	disklabel sd0

to see what slices exist.  My flash drives are showing up as sd0e; my
iPod is sd0f.



		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb