Package: usbutils Version: 0.71+cvs20051029-3 Severity: important
Folks, I just spent half an hour trying to figure out how to get a USB key to mount on my amd64 system running the latest unstable. When I first put in the key, dmesg showed only: usb 3-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 the key shows up under lsusb, but no mountable device is created. Perusing previous questions, I see a recommendation to modprobe usb_storage and sd_mod. Trying that gets me further: reinserting the key now produces dmesg like so: usb 3-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices usb-storage: device found at 6 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Vendor: IBM Model: Memory Key Rev: 1.01 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 SCSI device sdc: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB) sdc: Write Protect is off sdc: Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00 sdc: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sdc: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB) sdc: Write Protect is off sdc: Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00 sdc: assuming drive cache: write through /dev/scsi/host7/bus0/target0/lun0:<3>ldm_parse_privhead(): Cannot find PRIVHEAD structure. LDM database is corrupt. Aborting. ldm_validate_privheads(): Cannot find PRIVHEAD 1. unable to read partition table Attached scsi removable disk sdc at scsi7, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 usb-storage: device scan complete Looks promising, but trying to mount /dev/sdc produces: fast:/dev# mount -tvfat /dev/sdc /mnt/key mount: special device /dev/sdc does not exist Sure enough, fast:/dev# ls sdc* ls: sdc*: No such file or directory So I try MAKEDEV sdc, which looks like it does the right thing: fast:/dev# ./MAKEDEV -v sdc create sdc b 8 32 root:disk 0660 create sdc1 b 8 33 root:disk 0660 create sdc2 b 8 34 root:disk 0660 create sdc3 b 8 35 root:disk 0660 create sdc4 b 8 36 root:disk 0660 create sdc5 b 8 37 root:disk 0660 create sdc6 b 8 38 root:disk 0660 create sdc7 b 8 39 root:disk 0660 create sdc8 b 8 40 root:disk 0660 create sdc9 b 8 41 root:disk 0660 create sdc10 b 8 42 root:disk 0660 create sdc11 b 8 43 root:disk 0660 create sdc12 b 8 44 root:disk 0660 create sdc13 b 8 45 root:disk 0660 create sdc14 b 8 46 root:disk 0660 create sdc15 b 8 47 root:disk 0660 but alas, still no joy. fast:/dev# ls sdc* ls: sdc*: No such file or directory Just for the heck of it, I try find to see if sdc is being created somewhere else, and it is: in /dev/.static/dev So I try that, and it does work: fast:/dev# mount -tvfat /dev/.static/dev/sdc /mnt/key Surely this can't be the intended method for mounting usb keys.... Larry -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-amd64-k8 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages usbutils depends on: ii libc6 2.3.5-8.1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.10a-22 userspace USB programming library usbutils recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]