[auton-users] USB Keychains

[Pat Gunn]

Hey all,
As some of you may know, the lab now has some USB keychains
which might prove helpful to you in moving data around (you might
put a paper on one for a conference, or maybe use it as a better
floppy drive between non-networked computers).

On Windows, they're basically plug-in and go (they show up as
a disk when you plug them in, and you must 'eject' them via
their icon to remove them safely).

On Linux, once set up, they're not too complicated, and it's possible
that they might show up automagically on the most recent Linux
desktops (will NOT happen on facilitized RH7.1). If that doesn't happen,
here are the incantations to make them work..

Initial setup, will only need to happen once:
Plug in the device
Run 'dmesg'. If USB is working correctly, and the mass storage drivers
	are loaded, you should see a notice that a new device was seen,
	and assigned a SCSI drive ID (If you have no scsi disks, it'll
	usually be sda). If this does not happen, contact me, and I'll
	configure your system to load the correct modules so the device
	is seen.
Very carefully, edit /etc/fstab, adding a line like the following:
/dev/sda               /mnt/flash              auto    noauto 0 0

correct the /dev/sda part as needed.

Use:
To mount the device, type "mount /mnt/flash"

To remove the device, first type "sync ; umount /mnt/flash", and then type
"eject sda". You can then safely remove the device.

We presently have 5 units, each with a 64M capacity.

-- 
Pat Gunn
Research Programmer, Auton Group, CMU