Linux - Mounting USB Media

I would like some help in mounting my usb smartmedia device in Red Hat 8. It uses the fat filesystem. I know it can be done as Suse 8.1 configured my system to use it on install.

this is just a suggestion based on how my usb zip drive works, i think it is mounted through /dev/zip, maybe you could try /dev/usb0 or 1 or something like that since its a USB storage device...

im assuming this smartmedia is some form of card device for a camera or something, maybe there might be a driver you could install for it or there may be a generic drive for this type of device available to enable some form of functionality

There is an abundance of info on the www that will help you!

Try the below site which should help u out!
linux-usb

This is probably what your looking for...
http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x498.html

Cheers

r3b00+

I know USB zip drives (iomega) use scsi emulation, wich has to be added in the kernel configuration..

the usb zipdrive uses /dev/sda0 on my system..

I haven't used USB smart-media readers, I have a PCMCIA smartreader that uses /dev/hde1 on my system..

I do know it can be done, on ANY modern linux system..

Thanks guys I'll give it a go tonight when I have some spare time and let you know.

Bear in mind that under Linux USB mass storage usually emulates SCSI (always?).

On my system, I added a line to /etc/fstab

Code:

---

/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /mnt/camera    vfat mask=0,sync,nosuid,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,noauto,nodev,codepage=850    0 0

---

Bear in mind that that used the devfs-style device name "/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part1", it emulates a scsi disc.

Because I added the "user" and "noauto" options, it doesn't automount at boot, but can be mounted by a normal user. So I just do

mount /mnt/camera

and

umount /mnt/camera

whenever required.