Hi, I am trying to get my USB key working, following tip #40 on fedoranews.org, which suggest doing the following: 1. as root (or through "$su -l" from a user account) with Vim, Gedit or any other text-editor add a line to your /etc/fstab file /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbkey vfat user,iocharset=utf8,umask=0,sync,quiet,exec,codepage=866,noauto 0 0 2. as root (or through "$su -l" from a user account) create a directory in /mnt/ file #mkdir /mnt/usbkey After doing what is suggested here and trying to mount the key, the following happens: After plugging the key in I see (in /var/log/messages): Feb 11 11:06:58 gericke kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.7-1, assigned address 2 Feb 11 11:06:58 gericke kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x781/0x7101) is not claimed by any active driver. Feb 11 11:07:01 gericke /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usb-storage for USB product 781/7101/102 Feb 11 11:07:01 gericke kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... Feb 11 11:07:01 gericke kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage Feb 11 11:07:01 gericke kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Feb 11 11:07:01 gericke kernel:  Vendor: Generic  Model: STORAGE DEVICE   Rev: 1.02 Feb 11 11:07:01 gericke kernel:  Type:  Direct-Access                     ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Feb 11 11:07:01 gericke kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Feb 11 11:07:01 gericke kernel: SCSI device sda: 512000 512-byte hdwr sectors (262 MB) Feb 11 11:07:01 gericke kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Feb 11 11:07:01 gericke kernel: sda: sda1 Feb 11 11:07:01 gericke kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. So I think everything is fine there. Now, if I try to mount the key nothing happens and after a while I see the following: Feb 11 11:07:17 gericke kernel: MSDOS FS: IO charset utf8 Feb 11 11:07:17 gericke kernel: MSDOS FS: Using codepage 866 Feb 11 11:08:32 gericke kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout Feb 11 11:08:33 gericke kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:1d.7-1 address 2 Feb 11 11:08:34 gericke kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.7-1, assigned address 3 Feb 11 11:08:37 gericke /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usb-storage for USB product 781/7101/102 Feb 11 11:08:38 gericke kernel: usb-storage: host_reset() requested but not implemented Feb 11 11:08:48 gericke kernel: scsi: device set offline - command error recover failed: host 1 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 Feb 11 11:08:48 gericke kernel: SCSI disk error : host 1 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 6050000 Feb 11 11:08:48 gericke kernel: I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 0 Feb 11 11:08:48 gericke kernel: FAT: unable to read boot sector Feb 11 11:08:48 gericke kernel: FAT: freeing iocharset=utf8 Feb 11 11:08:48 gericke devlabel: devlabel service started/restarted After that a Gnome window comes up telling me that it was unable to mount the key. I think the important message here may be: Feb 11 11:08:38 gericke kernel: usb-storage: host_reset() requested but not implemented The thing is, if I have the key plugged in when I boot the computer everything works fine; mounting, un-mounting, plugging in an out, etc.. The same problem pops up in RedHat 9 but on RedHat 8 it works without problems... Does anyone know what is happening here? Thanks, Michael
