Re: USB Mass Storage Device

[Douglas Gilbert]

Jim Bean wrote:
 > The following USB Mass Storage device is found during bootup:
 >
 > scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB
 > Mass Storage devices
 >   Vendor: SOYO      Model: USB Storage-SMC   Rev: 0214
 >   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
 > Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
 >
 > Is it a CompactFlash reader that plugs directly into a USB1 header
 > on my motherboard.

 > /sys/bus/scsi/devices/0:0:0:0/* contains information regarding
 > the device, however there is nothing
 > /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0 for me to mount, regardless
 > of whether there is a card in the drive or not.  I have
 > hotplug enables, and inserting a card in the drive does not
 > generate any new messages under dmesg (although verbosity
 > stuff is not enabled).  Is this device not yet supported,
 > or am I missing something that I need to enable?

Jim,
Have a look in /var/log/messages for errors coming from the
sd driver (e.g. it could be stuck on a READ CAPACITY or MODE
SENSE command). Other than that it could be a problem with
devfs. You could make a temporary device node (e.g.
'cd /root; mknod my_sda b 8 0') then try fdisk on my_sda.

Doug Gilbert