[svlug] USB flashdrive problems

[Larry Colen]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 04:43:03PM -0700, Jeff Frost wrote:
# On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Larry Colen wrote:
# 
# >On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 04:36:55PM -0700, Jeff Frost wrote:
# ># On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Larry Colen wrote:
# >#
# ># >We have what is effectively an embedded system. We are doing a
# ># >monolithic (no modules) 2.6.9 kernel. If need be, we could go to
# ># >modules, but for the time being we're stuck with 2.6.9. We need to
# ># >mount a USB flash drive as storage.
# >
# >--snippage--
# >
# >#
# ># What does /proc/scsi/scsi contain?
# >
# >It's pretty much empty
# >
# >bash-3.00# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
# >Attached devices:
# 
# And how about:
# 
# dmesg | grep sd

bash-3.00# dmesg | grep sd
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir at monad.swb.de).

# Does that show any sd devices?  I'm guessing you aren't getting the device 
# to show up as a scsi device.

That seems to be the problem.

If I grep for scsi:

bash-3.00# dmesg | grep -i scsi
SCSI subsystem initialized
usb-storage: Protocol: Transparent SCSI
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices


On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 07:41:54PM -0400, Andrew Wilcox wrote:
# What is the output of "ls /dev | grep ^sd" ?

bash-3.00# ls -l /dev | grep sd
brw-rw-rw-  1 root root   8,  0 Sep 19 20:29 sda
brw-rw-rw-  1 root root   8,  1 Sep 19 20:29 sda1
brw-rw-rw-  1 root root   8, 16 Sep 19 20:29 sdb
brw-rw-rw-  1 root root   8, 17 Sep 19 20:29 sdb1

# 
# And you mention that it works on a Live CD.  Does it have a different
# kernel than the one you are using?  Can you possibly install its
# kernel?

Nope. We've modified the kernel for this system. We're planning an
update in the future, but need this feature now.



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