Re: Sandisk Cruzer USB flash drive -- gaah!
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 08:18:47AM -0900, Greg Madden wrote:
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> On Monday 01 March 2004 07:47 am, Matt Price wrote:
> > Hey everyone,
> >
> > I seem to havel ost my trusty old usb flash drive, so I shelled out
> > $70 for a new one -- and carelessly bought a Sandisk Cruzer 256meg
> > model. Gaah! I can't get it to work!!
> >
> > with the old drive, I simply plugged the thing in, usb-storage took
> > over and the drive was assigned /dev/sda(something or other).
> >
> > Now, dmesg gnerates this when the drive plugs in:
> >
> > hub.c: new USB device 00:11.2-1.2, assigned address 19
> > usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 1292
> > usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=19 (error=-110)
> > hub.c: new USB device 00:11.2-1.2, assigned address 20
> > usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=20 (error=-110)
> > [root@anarres<503>/home/matt]$
> >
> > note that this is the output for a single plug-in event -- that is,
> > the kernel tries to talk to it twice before giving up.
> >
> > On the web I see postings indicating that people have gotten it
> > working. But I can't do it! any suggestions?
> >
> > btw, I'm running sid on an Athlon CPU with a self-rolled, make-kpkg
> > 2.4.23 kernel; I think all the relevant modules are up and running,
> > see the output of lsmod (attached below).
> >
> > I'm kinda desperate for help, and pretty well need this to work in
> > the next couple of days -- so any assistance is desperately
> > appreciated! thanks,
> >
> > matt
>
> I have to actually use the mount command on mine, its a mini-cruzer.
> 'mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/<mount point>'. You need Fat & vfat file
> system support. This is on my laptop, no other scsi devices, so if you
> use it on a scsi box the disk ID may be different.
I think all of this is taken care of already in my kernel -- the
problem is that the drive isn't assigned to /dev/sd* -- it doesn't
even get recognized. I think the thing is supposed to light up when
it comes on -- but it just flashes for a second and then turns off.
blah! damned windows-centric crap...
m
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> Greg Madden
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