USB Mass Storage Devices

smellis · Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 2:08 am Post subject: USB Mass Storage Devices

I just bought a NEXDISK USB Storage Device Device. It said on the packeage that it would work with 2.4.0 kernels and higher. Mine is a Gentoo 1.4 system with 2.4.19 kernel. The usb kernel subsystem sees it and the scsi subsystem knows its there, but when i try to mount sda or sg0 or sg they all say not a block device. Anyone know what I need to do? Thanks

MBCook · Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 2:29 am Post subject:

I assume you have the right modules inserted into the kernel? Is the disk 'formated'/'partitioned'? If your syslogs have some more informative error message, I could help you more, but I've never used any USB storage stuff under linux.
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yannick · Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 9:09 pm Post subject:

What should be mounted is /dev/sda1, not /dev/sda, so I suspect, as MBCook said, that the disk is not partitioned/formated.
To do so, use 'fdisk /dev/sda' then 'mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1' (from dosfsutils).
Your kernel has to be able to access vfat partitions.

Yannick

ronmon · Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 10:20 pm Post subject:

What I might do is

smellis · Posted: Fri Nov 15, 2002 11:16 pm Post subject: not a block device

its says that /dev/discs/disc0 and disc1 are not block devices. What the heck? One interesting thing though it the file /proc/scsi/usb-storage-0/1 which when the nexdisk is plugged in and I run cat on it at the bottom it says Attached: Yes. When I unplug it it says Attached: No. Does that tell you anything? Thanks