wow, something worked first time!

[acroyear]

For Christmas, the company gave us all Linksys "Instant USB Disk"s, 32Meg on a chip in a casing that looks like a wide-tip highlighter pen. Well, its my first experience with USB, and on my redhat 7.3 box here at work, the darn thing actually worked first time (once I figured out what device it was). The USB devices seem to be /dev/sda#, and you can glance at their info by looking at /proc/bus/usb. the filesystem is standard windows vfat.

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

worked just fine for me. From there, I could add it to the fstab and in linuxconf, do the settings to any user could do it.

the fstab line:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb vfat user,owner,exec,dev,suid,rw,noauto 0 0

What really impressed me was that the USB pass-thru to VMWare worked just fine as well. Provided its not already mounted on linux, the windows vm picked up the new device perfectly. If its already mounted on linux, you have to unmount it, then unplug it and replug it for windows to find it.

restarting nautilus got the thing to show up in the right-click root menu.


Now I wonder how the wife's win98se box @ home will take to it...

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[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

well, i didn't try it directly, but i did manage to get a new mp3 player (christmas gift from brother-in-law) to work on my win98fe laptop @ home. loaded it up with some stuff from the "wedding mp3 collection" (i.e., the cdrom of rock that was the bbq music that night). Now to hook _that_ up with vmware...i wonder if someone's got a linux driver for this thing...

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

http://nomadii.sourceforge.net/ -- hey, it does work with linux! ;-)

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

which is good because i can't seem to get it to work in vmware...