USB memory stick

On Dec 24, 8:40 pm, scott <svet....TakeThisOut@ameritech.net> wrote:
> Got a Kingston USB memory stick. Plugged it into the USB hub.
> However, how do I know the path name for this device? Using OpenSuSE
> 11.0. With OpenSuSE 10.1 a window used to open telling me the path name
> but not with 11.0. Also using KDE 4.0.

Mine is /media/KINGSTON

just type "mount" and all will be revealed.

On 2008-12-24, scott <svetter.RemoveThis@ameritech.net> wrote:
> Got a Kingston USB memory stick. Plugged it into the USB hub.
> However, how do I know the path name for this device? Using OpenSuSE
> 11.0. With OpenSuSE 10.1 a window used to open telling me the path name
> but not with 11.0. Also using KDE 4.0.

I'm running KDE3 here and there are several ways.
Maybe also in KDE4, my experience of that is very limited, I've tried
like a few times but it just ain't my thing...

First, the stick shows up in MyComputer.
Using filemanager (Kongqueror) it appears in /media/

Command line: dmesg | grep SCSI

returns:

scsi16 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
sd 16:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk

It means it's /dev/sdd

Mount:

/dev/sdd1 on /media/KINGSTON type vfat
(rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,flush,uid=1000,utf8,shortname=lower)

So /dev/sdd1 is mounted /media/KINGSTON

Vahis
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scott wrote:

> Got a Kingston USB memory stick. Plugged it into the USB hub.
> However, how do I know the path name for this device? Using OpenSuSE
> 11.0. With OpenSuSE 10.1 a window used to open telling me the path name
> but not with 11.0. Also using KDE 4.0.

If you are running kde, check My Computer. It will list all drives including
usb. Click a drive on that display and it will open it up for you.

I have a new 4G Kingston and My Computer shows it as "Kingston".

Works for 11.0 and 11.1.

John

On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:40:24 -0500, scott wrote:

> Got a Kingston USB memory stick. Plugged it into the USB hub. However,
> how do I know the path name for this device? Using OpenSuSE 11.0. With
> OpenSuSE 10.1 a window used to open telling me the path name but not
> with 11.0. Also using KDE 4.0.

You might consider upgrading your KDE 4.0 to 4.1.x --- 4.0 was more of a
development release.

The thing your are looking for is called the "New Device Notifier"
plasmoid. You can get it by going to the peanut looking thing up in the
corner of your KDE 4.0 desktop and selecting Add Widgets ... it will
appear in the drop down list.

Jack Bunce wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:40:24 -0500, scott wrote:
>
>> Got a Kingston USB memory stick. Plugged it into the USB hub. However,
>> how do I know the path name for this device? Using OpenSuSE 11.0. With
>> OpenSuSE 10.1 a window used to open telling me the path name but not
>> with 11.0. Also using KDE 4.0.
>
> You might consider upgrading your KDE 4.0 to 4.1.x --- 4.0 was more of a
> development release.
>
> The thing your are looking for is called the "New Device Notifier"
> plasmoid. You can get it by going to the peanut looking thing up in the
> corner of your KDE 4.0 desktop and selecting Add Widgets ... it will
> appear in the drop down list.

KDE 4.0 seemed to change things around from what I am used to. Went
back to 3.5 but will consider KDE 4.1

John Bowling wrote:
> scott wrote:
>
>> Got a Kingston USB memory stick. Plugged it into the USB hub.
>> However, how do I know the path name for this device? Using OpenSuSE
>> 11.0. With OpenSuSE 10.1 a window used to open telling me the path name
>> but not with 11.0. Also using KDE 4.0.
>
> If you are running kde, check My Computer. It will list all drives including
> usb. Click a drive on that display and it will open it up for you.
>
> I have a new 4G Kingston and My Computer shows it as "Kingston".
>
> Works for 11.0 and 11.1.
>
> John

Found out that this device needed to be formatted. What it needed to
be done when it was done a few months ago, I don't know. Anyway, now
that it has been reformatted, it works fine.

Thanks all for the help!

On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:41:30 -0500, scott wrote:

> KDE 4.0 seemed to change things around from what I am used to. Went
> back to 3.5 but will consider KDE 4.1

Alas, KDE 4.X sometimes appears, to me at least, to have been the start
of the first "VISTAfication" of a GNU/linux desktop. The KDE 4.x folks
have their own vision and are hard at work trying to achieve it but, as
yet, the benefit for me remains not just unrealized but unfocused. The
KDE 3.x folks have spoiled me.

KDE 4.1.3 is installed and selected on my main machine as the everyday
desktop. I've moved one other older, slower machine over to Gnome and it
is rapidly growing on me. On my biggest and slowest box though I still
run KDE 3.5.x --- its polished, stable, fast and what I know --- it is
still my gold standard.