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Boris
Asked: 2012-01-16 01:58:14 +0800 CST

How can I mount my LeapFrog Tag USB device?

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I have no problem with my USB key devices: there are mounted automatically.
But for the LeapFrog Tag USB device it is not mounted automatically.

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So I look in the Ubuntu documentation to mount USB manually.

But fdisk returns only info about my hard disk, nothing about LeapFrog USB.

$ sudo fdisk -l
Périphérique Amorce  Début        Fin      Blocs     Id  Système<br>
/dev/sda1   *        2048   606713855   303355904   83  Linux<br>
/dev/sda2       606715902   625141759     9212929    5  Étendue<br>
/dev/sda5       606715904   625141759     9212928   82  partition d'échange Linux / Solaris

I found some commands able to list this USB device:
- lsusb
- udevadm (need unplug the device before using the command and then plug it to see it)

$ lsusb
...
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0f63:0700 **LeapFrog** Enterprises POGO<br>

and 

$ udevadm monitor --udev
monitor will print the received events for:
UDEV - the event which udev sends out after rule processing
UDEV  [1915.787445] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/usb5/5-2 (usb)
UDEV  [1915.796226] add      /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.3/usb5/5-2/5-2:1.0 (usb)

So I hope to be able to mount it with something like:
sudo mount -t ??? /dev/sdb??? /media/leapfrog

How can I know which option and what is the path of the device?
Is there a way to use USB ID from lsusb ?

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3 Answers

  1. The easiest way 

    sudo -i
blkid

    then plugin ur usb then run

    blkid

    before Usb

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    After Usb Plugged-in

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    so now i know my usb is vfat & its sdb1

    if its auto mounted and u want to mount it manually 1st run umount /dev/sdb1

    now manually mounting 

    mkdir /media/myusb

    or make a folder where u want to mount your usb

    mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/myusb

    now usb has been mounted on /media/myusb

    also check these links

    http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/#contrib

    Leapfrog Crammer won't mount as a USB flash drive

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  2. This is not a real answer

    I just want to record the tasks I'm using to try to solve my problem based on the wiki about Didj given by fossfreedom:

    I'm trying to unlock access to the LeapFrog Tag USB:

    1- install sg3_util
    2- get "some" Leapfrog Didj programs (Didj seems to be an other Leapfrog USB device)

    $ wget http://medialib.leapfrog.com/didj_opensource_code/Didj-Linux-4222-20090422-1236.tar.gz
$ tar -xzf Didj-Linux-4222-20090422-1236.tar.gz

    3- searh the programm scsi_custom.c

    $ find . -name scsi_custom.c
./Didj-Linux-4222-20090422-1236/host_tools/scsi/scsi_custom.c

    4a- perhaps program needs to be customized for the Leapfrog TAG instead of the Didj device ? but I don't know what part to be modified.

    4b- compile the program scsi_custom.c (with some warning unfortunately)

    $ cd Didj-Linux-4222-20090422-1236/host_tools/scsi
$ gcc -o scsi_custom scsi_custom.c
scsi_custom.c: In function ‘print_reply’:
scsi_custom.c:201:3: attention : format ‘%x’ expects argument of type ‘unsigned int’, but argument 2 has type ‘long unsigned int’ [-Wformat]

    5- plug the LeapFrog Tag USB and turn it on
    to cross-check that the device is well plugged, I do lsusb and get something like:

    $ lsusb
...
Bus 005 Device 009: ID 0f63:0700 LeapFrog Enterprises POGO

    6- and here, according to the wiki, I should $tail -f /var/log/messages
    but /var/log/messages does not exist.
    Else trying:
    - $ tail -f /var/log/dmesg does not return much
    - $ dmesg | grep -i usb returns this
    [20221.960029] usb 5-1: new full speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd

    -$ dmesg | grep -i scsi returns :

    [    1.228576] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[    1.252491] scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA Hitachi HDT72101 ST6O PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[    1.252724] sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[    1.263917] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[    1.331646] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk

    Note that /dev/sda and /dev/sdb are hard disk, not the USB device that I m looking for.

    So I m still unable to know the /dev/sg? for my device.
    So I m unable to continue this solution.

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  3. Best Answer

    I give up:

    the only way I found to make this Leapfrog Tag working is to plug it on a Windows XP PC.

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