Re: USB Mass Storage Device

Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
12 Apr 2003 20:00:40 -0400


On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 19:25, Douglas Gilbert wrote:

> Have a look in /var/log/messages for errors coming from the
> sd driver (e.g. it could be stuck on a READ CAPACITY or MODE
> SENSE command). Other than that it could be a problem with
> devfs. You could make a temporary device node (e.g.
> 'cd /root; mknod my_sda b 8 0') then try fdisk on my_sda.

I see the same problem here without devfs.

The device does not even register itself as a block device. I.e., on
boot it is detected and listed as sda but no sda* device is a valid
block device. /sys/block/ does not list it.

Also no errors in dmesg...

Robert Love

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