Bug 76609

Summary: (USB STORAGE)USB Mass Storage not usable
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Need Real Name <kslai>
Component: kernelAssignee: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 8.0CC: sbangert
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Hardware: i686   
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This is what comes out from the /var/log/messages file. Any solution? none

Description Need Real Name 2002-10-24 02:52:23 UTC 
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Description of problem:
When I plug in the USB Mass Storage device to the USB port, no new device is
created in the /dev directory.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Plug in the USB Mass Storage device to the USB port.
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:  "tail -f /var/log/messages" output:
kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2, assigned device number 5
/etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usb-storage for USB product 8ec/802/100
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module block-major-2


Expected Results:  The USB Mass Storage device should be able to use.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Pete Zaitcev 2002-10-24 16:59:53 UTC 
Devices in /dev are not created by hotplug. They are permanently
present as part of the "dev" package.

[zaitcev@niphredil linux-2.5]$ ls -l /dev/sda
brw-rw----    1 root     floppy     8,   0 Aug 30 16:31 /dev/sda
[zaitcev@niphredil linux-2.5]$ ls -l /dev/sdb
brw-rw----    1 root     disk       8,  16 Aug 30 16:31 /dev/sdb
[zaitcev@niphredil linux-2.5]$ rpm -qf /dev/sda
dev-3.3.1-2
[zaitcev@niphredil linux-2.5]$
Comment 2 Need Real Name 2002-10-25 09:01:47 UTC 
Created attachment 82024 [details]
This is what comes out from the /var/log/messages file. Any solution?
Comment 3 Pete Zaitcev 2002-11-07 02:53:56 UTC 
I do not see a problem. What happens if you run "fdisk /dev/sda"?
Comment 4 Need Real Name 2002-11-18 01:23:24 UTC 
I am able to mount the usb storage with 'mount /dev/sda /mnt/usbstorage'
command, but I am only able to mount as ext2 file system. I tried to format the
file system as vfat with this command ' mkfs -t vfat /dev/sda ' but the command
failed to perform the action. Please advice.
Comment 5 Need Real Name 2002-11-20 02:36:15 UTC 
This is the output of runing fdisk

# fdisk /dev/sda

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/sda: 2 heads, 32 sectors, 250 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1             1       250      7984    e  Win95 FAT16 (LBA)

Command (m for help):
Comment 6 Pete Zaitcev 2002-11-20 06:03:37 UTC 
Format in Windows or in Camera/Appliance, then use /dev/sda1,
   mount -t msdos /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstorage
Comment 7 Pete Zaitcev 2003-06-03 21:20:12 UTC 
May I close this now?