[Joey_21]

Is this possible? I'm using RedHat 9 with the latest kernel and I have a Lexar Media Secure JumpDrive. I tried plugging it into the USB port and booting up but linux doesn't seem to have an autodetect for something like that. If this is possible, how might I set it up for mounting?

Please help a linux n00b out.

[Kazan]

linux has an autodetect - is this a multicard reader?

[Joey_21]

http://www.lexarmedia.com/jumpdrive/jd_secure.html

Hmm... doesn't say anything about being a multi-card reader. I wonder why the autodetect doesn't work.

[Kazan]

oh.. it's a memory stick... what distro and what K revision are you using... it's a USB Mass Storage device and thus should be autodetected

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Yeah Fedora detected my USB drive straight away and was ready to run in seconds.
[/color]

[Joey_21]

distro: i386 (updated to i586 when I updated the kernel)
kernel: 2.4.20-30.9

Perhaps I need to upgrade it to Fedora. I probably should have gone with that distribution in the first place. I tried upgrading it a few days ago but my CD-ROM drive must be screwed up or something because I did a CD check when the installation for Fedora screen popped up and it reported an error (I've tried burning the CD's at two different speeds - 8x and 4x).

So until I can figure out what's wrong with my CD-ROM I have to work with Red Hat for now.


On the subject of USB detection: I plugged in an optical USB mouse from this machine to the linux box and Red Hat updated the mouse settings for it so it really doesn't make sense to me why it wouldn't detect the JumpDrive.

[castor]

Did already try unplugging/plugging it while the system is up and running?

[kasperl]

That error could  be due to a faulty dl.

[Joey_21]

Originally posted by castor
Did already try unplugging/plugging it while the system is up and running?

Originally posted by kasperl
That error could  be due to a faulty dl.

Perhaps, but it's kind of weird when the CD I burned on 8x got an error at 74% during the CD check and the CD I burned at 4x got an error at 84% during the check. I'm beginning to think it's the IDE cable. 2 fridays ago I found out that the old CD-ROM in that system burned out so I had to replace it with one that worked and it looks like this one may go bad too. I'll probably look for some replacement IDE cables around the house (my dad collects computer parts).

[kasperl]

did you run an MD5 at the downloaded file?

[Joey_21]

Originally posted by kasperl
did you run an MD5 at the downloaded file?

Nope, where might I find this?

[Kazan]

how new is your jump drive? you may just need updated hardware definition files that would come wiht an update

[Joey_21]

Originally posted by Kazan
how new is your jump drive? you may just need updated hardware definition files that would come wiht an update

I got it last christmas so it shouldn't be too terribly old.

[Kazan]

BTW: distro != "i386" that is platform

Distro is like Red Hat Enterprise, Fedora, Slackware, Gentoo, etc

[Joey_21]

http://www.redhat.com/apps/download/

Red Hat Linux 9
The last version of Red Hat's legacy Linux operating system, which is also the predecessor of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the Fedora Project.

[kasperl]

Originally posted by Joey_21


Nope, where might I find this?

isn't it a standard *nix command line?

when you downlload the file, next to the link are 2 things, the exact size in bytes, and a number/letter code. the code is the md5 sum, and there is software to extract such a code from a file. if the sums don't match, the file is ****ed.

and how to find it, god knows, i found something after heavy googliing, but that was all for windows systems. there should be a standard option in any linux distro for it, AFAIK.

[Joey_21]

Got some help from somebody else - seems what I needed to do was edit fstab and add some information about the usb drive. It still doesn't show up in the disk mounting selector forcing me to use the terminal.

kasperl - I cannot mount the CD-ROM drive while the Fedora disk is in. It just won't let me. I'm still leaning toward the idea that the IDE cable is bad.

[Kazan]

that's your problem joey - you're using old RH9

get fedora

[Kamikaze]

To find an md5 sum simply use the command "md5sum file-to-be-summed". I doubt corruption is the problem though.

Oh yeah Joey, at the first chance you get upgrade to kernel 2.6. It pwns.