Plugging in u s b things?

[Joseph C. Lininger]

Hello Paul,
For things like card readers and flash drives, they generally use the USB 
mass storage driver. What this means is that you can lsusb to find 
information on the device. They generally are treated as SCSI disks, which 
means that you will use something like /dev/sda to access the device. 
Generally cards are not partitioned, so you would do something like:

mount /dev/sda /mnt/card

A flash drive is partitioned, so you would do:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash

Hope this helps.
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Joseph C. Lininger
jbahm at pcdesk.net
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Migliorelli (+1 7 2 0 7 3 2 2 3 1 1)" <paulmigs at migliorelli.org>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 10:00 AM
Subject: Plugging in u s b things?


> Hi all.  Time for today's ignorant question.  Say you plug in like a
> compact flash card reader, or a memorystick thingy into a u s b port.  Any
> ideas as to what they become??  Like what would you ls to find out what's
> on them, or cp things over too??  Would it be slash dev slash something or
> other??  Thanks again.
>
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