On Thursday 10 May 2007, Michael Wiktowy wrote: >On 5/10/07, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Greetings all; >> >> I just mounted, as a vfat filesystem, a 64meg usb key/stick, wrote one >> file to it on a debian/kubuntu 6.06 LTS system, unmounted it and and >> brought it in here and plugged it into the FC6 box, on a usb1.1 hub also, >> but I cannot mount it. >> >> usb_storage is loaded according to lsmod. Here is the stanza from the log >> when I plug it in: >> >> May 10 13:24:42 coyote kernel: scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage >> devices May 10 13:24:47 coyote kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access >> Staples 0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 May 10 13:24:47 coyote >> kernel: scsi 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0 May 10 13:29:03 >> coyote kernel: usb 2-2.1: USB disconnect, address 4 May 10 13:29:05 coyote >> kernel: usb 2-2.2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 5 >> May 10 13:29:05 coyote kernel: usb 2-2.2: not running at top speed; >> connect to a high speed hub May 10 13:29:05 coyote kernel: usb 2-2.2: >> configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice May 10 13:29:05 coyote kernel: scsi3 >> : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices May 10 13:29:10 coyote >> kernel: scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access Staples 0.00 PQ: >> 0 ANSI: 2 May 10 13:29:10 coyote kernel: scsi 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi >> generic sg4 type 0 >> >> And of course sg4 is assumed to be the loader robot for the 5th robotic >> scsi tape drive the last I knew. >> >> Shouldn't it be available as /dev/sda1? It always has been before, quite >> a few times. >> >> Kernel is 2.6.21.1-cfs-v10 > >It could be the hardware (the combo of the usb drive and usb >controller) just not scaling back to usb 1.1 properly through noisy >lines. > >I have had similar things happen when using the USB ports on the front >of my machine (that connect through a long wire that runs by >hard-drives and power supplies, etc to get there). Plugging directly >into the usb ports on the back of the machine helped in my situation. >Maybe it will work for you if you try a different port or skip the hub >completely. > >/Mike Almost offtopic Mike, I don't have any audio ports in that front panel hub. What I did find was the sd_mod wasn't, because it was builtin. Rebuilding a new kernel with sd_mod as a module, and while it set it up as sde (I have NDI where abcd went), its now mounted and readable. Is that considered a kernal bug? Damnifiknow. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Of all men's miseries, the bitterest is this: to know so much and have control over nothing. -- Herodotus
