I have a USB flash drive and when I enter it into the USB drive, dmesg seems to show the system acknowledging the devices' existence. Unfortunately, I am not sure how to mount the drive - I thought it would automount under /mnt, but I have to mount it manually. I understand that it uses the ub driver, but I am lost to know what filesystem it should be mounted as.

I have tried ext3, ext2, msdos and vfat, to no avail.

I am using a Packard-Bell Club 77 (I'm a little unsure about the number) and I'm not sure whether the USB port is 1.0 or 1.1. The drive is a Maxell drive supporting USB 2.0 and I have managed to get it to work on a machine using Windows 2000 Professional at work. (I have seen three folders on it when I opened it.)

What steps am I missing? Is my hardware inadequate for the matter? (I plan on using this kind of drive for backup and for transferring files between Linux and non-Linux machines.