Samsung Galaxy S Won't Mount (SOLVED)

Kenji Miyamoto

I just got a new cell phone and have been trying to get it to mount under Gentoo. This lsusb line describes it:

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also a question of CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y?
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-840361-highlight-.html

Kenji Miyamoto · Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2010 3:18 pm Post subject:

theotherjoe · Guru Joined: 22 Nov 2003 Posts: 393

ok, kenji, googled for some other post about mounting galaxy s.
should have read your post more carefully. your are actually saying
that you do have /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd announced by the scsi
layer? could you post that part of your kernel log?
did you try to run fdisk /dev/sdc|/dev/sdd?

frostschutz · Advocate Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 2977 Location: Germany

Works fine for me. Note that you have to mount on the phone itself before you can mount on the PC.

I.e. you connect the phone with USB, then on the phone you select USB storage (not Kies or any of the others - if it does not ask you, check your usb settings), afterwards it should pop up a dialog where you can choose to mount or not mount. If the dialog does not pop up by itself you should find it in the notifications.

Before mounting, it will say "no medium found" like it does for you, after mounting you can actually mount it on the PC as well. I'm not sure why it is that complicated but I think what happens is that the phone itself actually unmounts the cards, so it can offer it to the PC as a direct cardreader. So you can not do concurrent read/write with phone and PC at the same time.

Kenji Miyamoto · Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 5:14 am Post subject:

Decibels · Veteran Joined: 16 Aug 2002 Posts: 1630 Location: U.S.A.

I hooked a friends galaxy s from verizon up to the computer and it wasn't mounting either. Till I found a Ubuntu forum on the matter (I usually find their forums unhelpful, except in this case).

The way I did it was after hooking it up to the linux system, and usb mass storage already selected. Was to pull the usb menu down from the top gray bar on the phone, by sliding the usb symbol down. That pulled up a menu to select 'mount'. The was able to transfer her music to the phone then.
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divago · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Jun 2010 Posts: 84

i got a galaxy s and got same problem

i connect usb, select mass storage, and then select "connect usb" from drop down menu inandroid

then i'm able to mount (well... it start automount but i'm able to umount and manually mount) ONLY THE MICRO SD

my gentoo detect partition in /dev/sdb not sdb1 not sdb2 not sdb1234567890 just sdb

it correctly mount partition in /media/disk like any other usbpen

so, resuming:
i can mount only micro SD (non internal memory) with this command:
# mount /dev/sdb /meda/disk

on windows i can mount both memories so it's not a phone issue...

3igHankCh0w · Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 11:02 pm Post subject: Unable to access internal drive

I too have trouble accessing the internal drive on my tmobile vibrant. I was able to access it on Mac OSX and once rooted I can access it as su in the terminal but when I run fdisk -l only the external 2gig sd card appears. As a note the external sd card is a directory of internal drive /sdcard/sd (/internal.drive/external.drive). Now that I have done the evil thing and rooted my phone (I paid for it; it runs an open source OS so why am I wrong to do it?) it's not a problem but I still cannot see the main drive.
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divago · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Jun 2010 Posts: 84

back to IT:
now i upgraded firmware and os system (on my phone); i also changed file system from RFS (samsung vfat+journaling patchwork awful fs) to EXT4 (better performance)
now when gentoo does'nt recognise neither my external SD

this is what i do:
- connect phone to USB
- select "connect as mass storage" in android menu'
- hit "connect button" in android splash screen (or select "connect USB" from drop-down notification menu, it's same thing)

dmesg does'nt show anything new
trying manually mount (ie typing "# mount /dev/sdX /mnt/disko" ) does'nt work (no device) and so also fstab
seems like system does'nt recognise phone...
maybe i need to install something? some module? some kernel parameter?

i tried using bluetooth but got only partial solution; i can transfer from pc to phone not the viceversa
i tried also using samba, but to connect phone in lan i need to configure pc wifi in routing and dunno why samba port are blocked (yeah, i opened it under iptables. btw i got also some problem with navigation and market and other things around proxy so connecting in wifi lan is not a good idea...)

this is my kernel .config
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11v-BnyO8SzqV7eUbd0nMDmTgPQvJDpfQRSeJ5ioRwR4/edit?hl=it&authkey=CKyZuaIP

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