> Arkajyoti Misra wrote:
> 
> >   I am running FC1 on a Toshiba satellite laptop and trying to get
the
> >   OS to recognize my USB jumpdrive. 

You might want to confirm what file system is imprinted on your
jumpdrive chip. It's probably an M$ file system, which is perfectly
fine. Other filesystems aren't necessarily a problem.

Second, investigate your distribution. Sadly, Fedora Core just doesn't
do well mounting USB-based file systems. I have the same PC I had two
years ago; FC1 could not mount my USB memory stick, FC2 found it but
mounted it non-writeable, and FC3 did no better. That is a year of
'progress'.

I am sure the problem is not the kernel but the implementation of
autofs. A year ago I ran Knoppix 3.4 running the 2.4 kernel; it not only
sensed the USB memory stick but mounted it writeable in the same machine
where I installed FC1,2, and 3. Knoppix 3.6 did even better -- more
automated, somewhat dumbed-down, but very slick. SuSE was/is just as
good. But that's not the kernel. It's autofs, and more precisely, the
scripting around autofs.

FCs autofs implementation has a bad script, but you can work around it
if you must. Better yet, change to SuSE or some other distribution that
has a good track record with autofs. But if you decide to keep your
current OS, then tackle autofs. The problem is not in the kernel.

John Reese


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