[plug] USB mass storage and SD card

[Richard Meyer]

Hi People

Just a question re USB Mass Storage devices with "piggyback" cards.

I bought a USB Mass Storage (from now on USBMS) from Dick Smith Electronics
around Christmas time and was very chuffed to find that plugging it
straight in to a USB port under Linux caused an icon to appear on the
desktop saying /dev/sda1 unmounted. A right click on there and choose
option "mount" and away we went. Perfect, thought I, so I went and bought
an SD card, which plugs into the side of the USBMS.

Now my problems start, in that Linux (Mdk 9.1 and 9.2) don't see the extra
storage. I know it's there because Win2K sees the USBMS as 2 drives and
will write to either one.

Anybody else got a similar set of toys and has got them working?

For your edification and perusing pleasure, this is what I get out of
/var/log/messages when I plug the USBMS in, with or without the SD card.

Feb 22 17:28:12 SelousMdk kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage
driver...
Feb 22 17:28:12 SelousMdk kernel: usb.c: registered new driver
usb-storage
Feb 22 17:28:12 SelousMdk kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass
Storage devices
Feb 22 17:28:12 SelousMdk kernel:   Vendor:           Model: 3in1
MobileDrive  Rev: 3.02
Feb 22 17:28:12 SelousMdk kernel:   Type:
Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Feb 22 17:28:12 SelousMdk kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
Feb 22 17:28:12 SelousMdk /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Module setup
usb-storage for USB product d7d/280/100
Feb 22 17:28:12 SelousMdk /etc/hotplug/usb/usb-storage: Load scsimon
Feb 22 17:28:12 SelousMdk /etc/hotplug/usb/usb-storage: loading ...
scsimon
Feb 22 17:28:12 SelousMdk /etc/hotplug/scsi.agent: sr_mod allready
loaded
Feb 22 17:28:12 SelousMdk /etc/hotplug/scsi.agent: loading ... sd_mod
Feb 22 17:28:12 SelousMdk kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at
scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Feb 22 17:28:12 SelousMdk kernel: SCSI device sda: 253952 512-byte hdwr
sectors (130 MB)
Feb 22 17:28:12 SelousMdk kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Feb 22 17:28:13 SelousMdk kernel:  /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Feb 22 17:28:18 SelousMdk kernel: cdrom: open failed.
Feb 22 17:28:52 SelousMdk su(pam_unix)[3722]: session opened for user
root by richard1(uid=500)

Thanks
RichardM