From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 Description of problem: After upgrading to the 2.6.8 kernel, my system no longer recognizes my 16mb Diskonkey USB thumb drive. It seems to be a kernel, rather than a hotplug, problem since the hotplug version (2004_04_01-1) is the same as that originally installed by FC2. When I plug the drive into a USB port, the kernel logs the following lines to /var/log/messages: kernel: usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using address 22 kernel: usb-storage: probe of 3-1:1.0 failed with error -1 Under the original FC2 kernel (2.6.5-1.358), the following lines were logged: kernel: usb 1-2.4: new full speed USB device using address 3 kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices kernel: Vendor: M-Sys Model: DiskOnKey Rev: 2.01 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. scsi.agent[25956]: disk at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/usb1/1-2/1-2.4/1-2.4:1.0/host0/0:0:0:0 kernel: SCSI device sda: 31520 512-byte hdwr sectors (16 MB) kernel: sda: assuming Write Enabled kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 sda4 kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 I haven't been able to figure out where the "probe failed" message is generated, so I'm not sure which kernel module is failing. Other (possibly) useful output is uname -a: Linux benjamin 2.6.8-1.521 #1 Mon Aug 16 09:01:18 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux lsusb: Bus 003 Device 024: ID 08ec:0010 M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers DiskOnKey Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 These symptoms are not limited to one system. It occurs on Dell desktops (Optiplex GX270, Dimension 2350) as well as my laptop (Toshiba Satellite A45-S250 and a self-built machine (500MHz Celeron), so it's almost certainly not a hardware problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.8-1.521 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Plug drive into any USB slot 2. 3. Actual Results: nothing (see "Description" for messages logged by kernel) Expected Results: The drive should have been recognized (see "Description" for messages that should have been logged), and a /mnt/diskonkey entry should have been added (by updfstab) to /etc/fstab. Additional info:
I have a similar but not identical problem: the kernel doesn't even notice that the usb disk is plugged in. The same device works on other computers running the same kernel. Going back to the original 2.6.5 kernel of FC2 solves the problem, but with this kernel, the on-board network interface of this computer is not recognized so this isn't really an option. I have tried all the usb disks/cameras that I have available, and none of them causes anything to happen in the logs or the entries under /proc/bus/usb and /sys/bus/usb on this computer.
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