Re: USB mass storage and kernel 2.4.18

2003-02-21 Thread sean finney
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 07:34:22AM -0500, Kevin Coyner wrote: > A nice utility to use for figuring out which scsi the device is on is > > apt-get install sg3-utils hey, yeah, that is pretty nice. maybe i can even use that to get my reader to work as a hotplug device... sean msg3217

Re: USB mass storage and kernel 2.4.18

2003-02-21 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:36:41AM -0500, sean finney wrote.. > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:37:06AM +0800, Dai Yuwen wrote: > > which device should I use in /dev (sda? or sdb? ... ) > > whichever one mounts :) if you want to take a sneak peak, do > file -s /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1, and if it

Re: USB mass storage and kernel 2.4.18

2003-02-20 Thread sean finney
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:37:06AM +0800, Dai Yuwen wrote: > which device should I use in /dev (sda? or sdb? ... ) whichever one mounts :) if you want to take a sneak peak, do file -s /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1, and if it says something about a vfat parition or an x86 boot sector, that's the one.

Re: USB mass storage and kernel 2.4.18

2003-02-20 Thread Dai Yuwen
sean finney wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 02:00:20PM +0800, Dai Yuwen wrote: Conclusion: To use this USB flash disk, just install these 3 modules: sg usb-storage usb-uhci excellent :) question: if you plug yours in and unplug it, and then plug it in again, is it still /dev/sda? every time

Re: USB mass storage and kernel 2.4.18

2003-02-20 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Hi, All I've a 64M USB flash disk. I searched the internet, and did the following steps: 1. plug USB disk into my PC 2. modprobe sg usb-storage Then I tried to mount it: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt But a messages said `/dev/sda1 is not a valid block device'. Then I checked this file: 3. cat /pro

Re: USB mass storage and kernel 2.4.18

2003-02-20 Thread Craig Dickson
Dai Yuwen wrote: > I've a 64M USB flash disk. I searched the internet, and did the following > steps: > > 1. plug USB disk into my PC > 2. modprobe sg usb-storage > > Then I tried to mount it: > mount /dev/sda1 /mnt > > But a messages said `/dev/sda1 is not a valid block device'. > > Then

Re: USB mass storage and kernel 2.4.18

2003-02-20 Thread sean finney
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:15:26PM +0800, Dai Yuwen wrote: > > excellent :) question: if you plug yours in and unplug it, and then plug it > > in again, is it still /dev/sda? every time i do that on mine it changes to > > sdb then sdc, etc... > > > I've no this problem. But I umount /dev/sda

Re: USB mass storage and kernel 2.4.18

2003-02-20 Thread Dai Yuwen
sean finney wrote: On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 02:00:20PM +0800, Dai Yuwen wrote: Conclusion: To use this USB flash disk, just install these 3 modules: sg usb-storage usb-uhci excellent :) question: if you plug yours in and unplug it, and then plug it in again, is it still /dev/sda? every time

Re: USB mass storage and kernel 2.4.18

2003-02-19 Thread Dai Yuwen
sean finney wrote: > heya, i have it running fine, and i'm > > balthasar[~]00:13:09$ uname -a > Linux balthasar 2.4.19 #1 Sat Nov 16 15:49:07 EST 2002 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux > > but i believe i've had it working on 2.4.18 as well. i believe you > just need more modules installed. here's

Re: USB mass storage and kernel 2.4.18

2003-02-19 Thread sean finney
heya, i have it running fine, and i'm balthasar[~]00:13:09$ uname -a Linux balthasar 2.4.19 #1 Sat Nov 16 15:49:07 EST 2002 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux but i believe i've had it working on 2.4.18 as well. i believe you just need more modules installed. here's an edited output of my lsmod, ma

USB mass storage and kernel 2.4.18

2003-02-19 Thread Dai Yuwen
Hi, All I've a 64M USB flash disk. I searched the internet, and did the following steps: 1. plug USB disk into my PC 2. modprobe sg usb-storage Then I tried to mount it: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt But a messages said `/dev/sda1 is not a valid block device'. Then I checked this file: 3. cat /pro