Re: USB Mass Storage in 2.4.18-686

[Thomas Shemanske <thomas.r.shemanske@dartmouth.edu>]

You should probably also have scsi-generic loaded as a module

modprobe sg

You could install the package scsiadd, then run
scsiadd -s

to scan the scsi devices.

On occasion (no idea why), I suddenly needed to mount sdb1 instead of sda1.

I use this sandisk reader on 2.4.18 without a problem, but it is not a 
stock kernel.

Let me know if you need more info.

Tom




john wrote:

> Hi
>
> I recently installed kernel image 2.4.18-686 under Woody but found I was 
> unable to mount my Sandisk CF reader (SDDR-31), whereas under 2.4.17-686
> this works flawlessly.
>
> So I get the source - debian kernel-source-2.4.18-4, configure it, compile.
> Still no go, but I get a handy error message (I expect because I
> turned on kernel debugging):
>
> # mount /mnt/cam
> resize_dma_pool: unknown device type -1
> mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
>
> I'm using the same usb/scsi configure options as in my successful
> 2.4.17 kernel, and the appropriate modules all seem to be loaded:
>
> # lsmod grep 'usb\|scsi'
> usb-storage            48000   0  (unused)
> scsi_mod               84984   2  [sd_mod usb-storage]
> usbcore                48192   0  [uhci usb-storage]
>
> ... usb-storage is unused though, as if the kernel can't find the
> device - which I guess is what the original error is saying.
>
> Anyone have any clues on this?
> Anything more I should try?
>
> Does this look like a genuine bug that I should report - I'm new to debian so 
> I'm unused to the protocols for this, but as I say it works fine in 
> 2.4.17-686 whether I use the pre-compiled binary or complile it myself.



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