Congrats. Glad to hear you are up and running! On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 03:43, Michael Waters wrote: > > it works!!! Thank you so much Neal, thank you, thank you, thank you. I > had given up hope. :) > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003, Neal Lippman wrote: > > OK, here's what I notice: in /dev, your /dev/sd* device entries are > > correctly set up with block major device number 8, as is the case for > > the first (I think) 33 scsi disk devices. > > > > The output of /proc/devices, however, does not show that you have a > > block major device 8 entry, which should show the "sd" driver. > > > > My system's output for the same two commands does indeed show block > > major 8 as a device in /proc/devices, with sd as the driver - so I would > > surmise that this is your problem and why the devices don't seem to > > exist. When you try to mount /dev/sda1, the kernel should be looking > > for driver registered to handled block major 8, but there isn't one. > > > > A harder question is WHY you don't have one. On my system, it appears > > that scsi disk support is built into the kernel - because I haven't > > loaded sd.o as a module and no such module appears in > > /lib/modules/2.4.18.../kernel/drivers/scsi. > > I couldn't find an sd.o anywhere but browsing around in > /lib/modules/2.4.21.../kernel/drivers/scsi , I saw sd_mod.o . I tried > `modprobe sd_mod`, now I can use the reader. :) I've added sd_mod to > /etc/modules. I guess the kernel I was using last year when I had no > troubles with my camera must have had this compiled in; I don't > remember changing /etc/modules at all. > > > You need to verify that on your system, with whatever kernel you are > > running, that either a) scsi disk support is compiled into the kernel, > > or b) if it is built as a module, you are loading the module (eg by > > putting this entry into /etc/modules or by whatever other mechanism you > > prefer. > > > > While the kernel does dynamically locate and load some modules as needed > > based on system calls, I don't know if the scsi subsystem or mount > > subsystem does that for the scsi disk drivers; maybe someone on the list > > has delved into that aspect of the kernel code and can help here. My > > guess would be "no". > > Thank you again, it's really made my day to get this finally working. > > Michael > > > Just in case someone with similar trouble reads this in the future, the > necessary modules appear to be: > > scsi_mod > sd_mod > vfat > sg > usb-storage > usb-uhci (or I guess usb-ohci or usb_ehci depending on the motherboard) > usbcore > > the output of `mount` should show: > none on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw) > > #sg_map: > /dev/sg0 /dev/scd0 > /dev/sg1 /dev/sda (this particular reader has 2 slots) > /dev/sg2 /dev/sdb > > # cat /proc/devices > Character devices: > 1 mem > 2 pty/m%d > 3 pty/s%d > 4 tts/%d > 5 cua/%d > 6 lp > 7 vcs > 10 misc > 14 sound > 21 sg > 29 fb > 128 ptm > 136 pts/%d > 162 raw > 180 usb > 226 drm > > Block devices: > 1 ramdisk > 3 ide0 > 8 sd > 11 sr > 22 ide1 > 65 sd > 66 sd > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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