Can't Mount USB Flash Drive

[Roop Nanuwa]

On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:39:06 -0500, Jason Dusek <jason-dusek at uiowa.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a Dell D600, and I count mount flash devices on it. They show up in
> dmesg. Here I put the drive in the top one, pull it out and stick it in the
> bottom one, and then put it back in the top one:
> 
>   ugen0: SanDisk Corporation Cruzer Mini, rev 2.00/0.10, addr 2
>   ugen0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected
>   ugen0: detached
>   ugen0: SanDisk Corporation Cruzer Mini, rev 2.00/0.10, addr 2
>   ugen0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected
>   ugen0: detached
>   ugen0: SanDisk Corporation Cruzer Mini, rev 2.00/0.10, addr 2
> 
> Strangely, they show up as the same address on the same device. When I try to
> mount ugen0, I get a message that sayeth:
> 
>   Block device required.
> 
> What does this mean? What do I do?

Hi Jason,

Check out this page which is a great walk through on getting what you
need set up:

http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200305/cfmount.html

In particular, you need to mount the corresponding 'da' device, not
the ugen device.

--roop