Re: USB and IDE-SCSI devices not showing up (migration from Mandrake to Debian testing).

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

Adam (<a24061@yahoo.com>) wrote:

> I recently did a clean installation of Debian testing on my
> workstation, but I can't find my USB devices and CD-RW.
> 
> /sbin/lsmod includes the following:
> 
> sg                     28412   0 (autoclean) (unused)
> usb-uhci               19696   0 (unused)
> usb-ohci               16136   0 (unused)
> usbcore                52908   0 [usb-uhci usb-ohci]
> ide-scsi                8464   0
> ide-cd                 27968   0
> cdrom                  25088   0 [ide-cd]
> sd_mod                 10860   0 (unused)
> scsi_mod               85408   3 [sg ide-scsi sd_mod]
> ide-disk               12512   5 (autoclean)
> ide-detect               288   0 (autoclean) (unused)
> ide-core               94332   5 (autoclean) [ide-scsi ide-cd ide-disk
>                                  ide-detect sis5513]
> 
> and I've installed devfsd and added append="hdd=ide-scsi" to
> lilo.conf. However cdrecord -scanbus finds nothing and things are
> missing in /proc:
> 
> /proc $ ls -l bus/usb/
> total 0

Did you mount the usbdevfs? Add this to your fstab:

usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0

> /proc $ cat scsi/scsi
> Attached devices: none

Did you rerun lilo? What does dmesg | grep cd say? What does dmesg |
grep command say?

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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