From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 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:
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]$
Created attachment 82024 [details] This is what comes out from the /var/log/messages file. Any solution?
I do not see a problem. What happens if you run "fdisk /dev/sda"?
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.
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):
Format in Windows or in Camera/Appliance, then use /dev/sda1, mount -t msdos /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstorage
May I close this now?