On Wed, August 1, 2007 7:29 am, Karl Larsen wrote: > It was my guess that USB uses Firewire. I can be wrong. The device is a > tiny sim in a plastic housing with a USB male plug. Nope. USB and Firewire are two different devices types. If it was a firewire device it would be plugged in to a Firewire card on your computer. > Here is dmesg: > usb-storage: device found at 3 > usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning > usb-storage: device scan complete > scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 PMAP PQ: 0 > ANSI: 0 CCS > sd 3:0:0:0: [sdg] 4030464 512-byte hardware sectors (2064 MB) > sd 3:0:0:0: [sdg] Write Protect is off > sd 3:0:0:0: [sdg] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00 > sd 3:0:0:0: [sdg] Assuming drive cache: write through > sd 3:0:0:0: [sdg] 4030464 512-byte hardware sectors (2064 MB) > sd 3:0:0:0: [sdg] Write Protect is off > sd 3:0:0:0: [sdg] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00 > sd 3:0:0:0: [sdg] Assuming drive cache: write through > sdg: sdg1 > sd 3:0:0:0: [sdg] Attached SCSI removable disk > sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg8 type 0 > usb 4-6: USB disconnect, address 3 > usb 4-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 > usb 4-6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice > scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices > usb-storage: device found at 4 > usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning > usb-storage: device scan complete > scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 PMAP PQ: 0 > ANSI: 0 CCS > sd 4:0:0:0: [sdg] 4030464 512-byte hardware sectors (2064 MB) > sd 4:0:0:0: [sdg] Write Protect is off > sd 4:0:0:0: [sdg] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00 > sd 4:0:0:0: [sdg] Assuming drive cache: write through > sd 4:0:0:0: [sdg] 4030464 512-byte hardware sectors (2064 MB) > sd 4:0:0:0: [sdg] Write Protect is off > sd 4:0:0:0: [sdg] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00 > sd 4:0:0:0: [sdg] Assuming drive cache: write through > sdg: sdg1 > sd 4:0:0:0: [sdg] Attached SCSI removable disk > sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg8 type 0 > [karl@k5di ~]$ Well the kernel is seeing the device. It seems others are seeing this same behavior with their devices. I would fill out a bugzilla report. Thanks, Erich