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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: 7260 mount thumb drive ?
From: "thinkr32" <>
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 23:57:29 -0000
JIM ! You're the man. That worked. 
(sorry, my search missed that posting! Now why isn't that in TS's material ;) )

insmod'ed the filesystems and it worked!

Thank you Jim Jackson !


--- In  Jim Jackson <> wrote:
>
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 23 Apr 2010, thinkr32 wrote:
> 
> >
> > OK I found the *USB*.sh script elsewhere that was mentioned and confirmed 
> > that the 7260 does have all the kernel modules loaded that the script calls 
> > for.
> >
> > HOWEVER - it still doesn't have vfat, NTFS, or msdo file formats. (And 
> > thus can't mount the USB drive it detects).
> >
> > So basically is the USB Thumb drive only accessible if it is formatted 
> > for linux only?
> 
> Have you tried insmod'ing the modules?
> 
> Try
> 
>     insmod fat
>     insmod vfat
>     insmod msdos
> 
> In fact something triggered my memory, and a quick search of the forum
> got this post just 2 months ago....
> 
> ==================================================================
> Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 15:24:45
> From: Cecilia San Rom?n <>
> To: 
> Subject: Re: [ts-7000] TS7260 - Mounting to USB, how to read or write
> 
> Hi,
> You need to install the following modules:
>      insmod pcipool
>      insmod usbcore
>      insmod usb-ohci
>      insmod usb-ohci-ep93xx
>      insmod fat
>      insmod vfat
>      insmod msdos
>      insmod scsi_mod
>      insmod sd_mod
>      insmod usb-storage
> The modules fat, vfat and msdos are for vfat format.
> If the format of your pendrive is different you might need other modules.
> 
> We mount the USB with the following command: mount -t vfat
> /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /mnt/flash/
> ======================================================================
> 
> >
> > It looks like vfat etc. are not added to the kernel via modules like 
> > someone originally stated. Looks like they simply are not there.
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In  "thinkr32" <cmosis5@> wrote:
> >>
> >> So no one has been able to mount a usb thumb drive on a 7260?
> >>
> >> Or, do you know what image I should use that maybe has the magic script 
> >> files that aren't on this board? (nor is the driver that adds the 
> >> filesystems it sounds like I need).
> >>
> >> Note when you plug in the usb it seems to state its detected as scsi but 
> >> as I posted you can't mount it as /proc/filesystem doesn't have the type.
> >>  (the images on their ftp don't say what is what and why...) my board is 
> >> booting from SD and the only image that would work on the SD card was the 
> >> image that was a "dd" image so that I could use dd to put the image and 
> >> partitions on the SD card. I followed the book for the other images and 
> >> then you end up with one partition on the SD and it dies when booting, 
> >> looking like it is expecting other partitions.
> >> Is there any documentation that covers putting the images on the SD and 
> >> the correct partitions too? (The manual just puts the image on the SD and 
> >> doesn't mention anything else... which ends up not working.)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --- In  Russ Nelson <rnnelson@> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> See?  People really *do* say that!  Speaking of which, I've had no
> >>> success with my USB760 on Linux 2.4.  I mean, no user space program
> >>> should be able to crash Linux, right??  I'm going to try the unofficial
> >>> 2.6 that TS support pointed me to.
> >>>
> >>> On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 19:59 +0100, Jim Jackson wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> "Are you THE Russ Nelson? You mean I'm talking to THE Russ Nelson?"
> >>>>
> >>>> Jim
> >>>>
> >>>> On Mon, 19 Apr 2010, Russ Nelson wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 17:14 +0000, thinkr32 wrote:
> >>>>>> They just say to run a script - however, that script is not on the
> >>>>>> boards file system, so that doesn't help much.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>> It's in /usr/bin on the mtd filesystem.  Look for filenames starting
> >>>>> with 'usb' ...
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>




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