[plug] USB Flash Drive

Dean Holland speedster at westnet.com.au
Mon Dec 29 19:59:59 WST 2003


I have a USB adapter for a notebook drive currently plugged into a FC1
system, lsmod shows that I have the scsi_mod and sd_mod (SCSI Disk
module) loaded.

Once loaded, I access the drive as sdb (my SATA drive is picked up as
sda).

Hope that's of some help.

Dean

On Mon, 2003-12-29 at 19:44, Jon Miller wrote:
> I'm trying to install a usb 2.0 flash memory key on rhl9.  I've tried
> /dev/sda1 and this doesn't work.  I also check lsmod and can see that
> there is a module:
> Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
> soundcore               5924   0  (autoclean)
> vfat                   11564   0  (autoclean)
> fat                    35896   0  (autoclean) [vfat]
> agpgart                43264   0  (unused)
> iptable_filter          2316   0  (autoclean) (unused)
> ip_tables              13624   1  [iptable_filter]
> autofs                 11860   0  (autoclean) (unused)
> nfs                    72152   5  (autoclean)
> lockd                  52784   1  (autoclean) [nfs]
> sunrpc                 74076   1  (autoclean) [nfs lockd]
> e100                   48068   1
> sg                     33740   0  (autoclean)
> sr_mod                 16312   0  (autoclean)
> cdrom                  30272   0  (autoclean) [sr_mod]
> usb-storage            66048   0
> keybdev                 2688   0  (unused)
> mousedev                5076   1
> hid                    20196   0  (unused)
> input                   5472   0  [keybdev mousedev hid]
> usb-uhci               23756   0  (unused)
> usbcore                71328   1  [usb-storage hid usb-uhci]
> ext3                   61792   6
> jbd                    46644   6  [ext3]
> ide-scsi               10640   0
> sd_mod                 12780   0
> scsi_mod              100632   5  [sg sr_mod usb-storage ide-scsi
> sd_mod]
> 
> So I ran a modprobe usbcore but still I cannot access the key.
> 
> When I check the scsi this is the output:
> ~# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
> Attached devices:
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: ATAPI    Model: CD-RW 48X16      Rev: A.RZ
>   Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: ATAPI-CD Model: ROM-DRIVE-52MAX  Rev: 52AV
>   Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: BENQ     Model: USB Flash Drive  Rev: PROL
>   Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> 
> Any ideas what I need to do next?
> 
> Thanks




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