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HOWTO USB Mass Storage Device and Gentoo 
I searched and asked and tried a long time. My 128-MB USB-Stick from Aldi (Medion) works now and here is the way how I got everything working.
I am using the Kernel 2.4.20 - gentoo-sources
Go to the kernel source directory and make the menu
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cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig
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Now we have to make sure first, that you have SCSI Support compiled in your Kernel. Please go to the menuitem
and hit enter. Check out now, if the first entry, SCSI support is selected. If not compile it either into your kernel or compile it as module. I personally have it compiled into my kernel, but, of course, you can compile it as module as well. The module would be called scsi_mod later. Else you need the SCSI disk support. If you compile it as modul, it is called later sd_mod. If you compile them as modules, remember to load them later in the /etc/modules.autoload as well. The rest of the instructions are written like if the SCSI support is compiled staticly into your kernel.
Now we go to:
Please make sure that DOS FAT fs support and the subitems MSDOS fs support and VFAT (Windows-95) fs support are choosen as module.
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<M> DOS FAT fs support
<M> MSDOS fs support
< > UMSDOS: Unix-like file system on top of standard MSDOS fs
<M> VFAT (Windows-95) fs support
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Now go back and change to
Compile support for USB as Module
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<M> Support for USB
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Depending on your motherboard you need either UHCI or OHCI support. Read your manual and the help entries for UHCI and OHCI to find out what you need. Else you need USB Mass Storage support, of course  .
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<M> UHCI (Intel PIIX4, VIA, ...) support
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<M> OHCI (Compaq, iMacs, OPTi, SiS, ALi, ...) support
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and, of course:
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<M> USB Mass Storage support
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That's it I think! Exit and save configuration. Then compile and install the kernel as described in the Gentoo X86 Installation Guide and reboot your system with the new kernel.
You should be able now to load the folowing modules using modprobe
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modprobe usbcore
modprobe usb-storage
modprobe vfat
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Else you have to load either
or
Please remember to load the SCSI modules as well, if you compiled SCSI support as module, of course.
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modprobe scsi_mod
modprobe sd_mod
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When you see no error message plug in your USB-Stick and run
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hub.c: new USB device 00:09.0-2, assigned address 3
usb-storage: act_altsettting is 0
usb-storage: id_index calculated to be: 47
usb-storage: Array length appears to be: 68
usb-storage: Vendor: JMTek
usb-storage: Product: USBDrive
usb-storage: USB Mass Storage device detected
usb-storage: Endpoints: In: 0xe55f7d40 Out: 0xe55f7d54 Int: 0xe55f7d68 (Period 255)
usb-storage: Found existing GUID 0c7600050000000000000000
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 3
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Now create a mountdir and try to mount your USB stick:
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mkdir /mnt/usbstick
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstick
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When you see no errors your USB-Stick should be installed correct. Open now the /etc/modules.autoload and add the modules to it.
Now you can optionally insert a new line to your /etc/fstab like
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# MY USB STICK
/dev/sda1 /mnt/stick auto noauto,user,exec 0 0 |
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I hope this Howto can help a bit.
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An example entry for your fstab.
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/dev/sda1 /mnt/memstick vfat user,noauto,umask=0077 0 0
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This line allow any user to mount,umount the memstick and doesn't mount it automatically at boottime, because most of the time it's unplugged at boot time.
I also added the umask option, because i need it to be only accesible for my user, otherwise i couldn't stock my sshkeys on it and ssh-agent wouldn't accept my keys because of too opened permissions.
You can also add the option uid and/or gid if you want to force the owner of the files and the mountpoint of your memstick
(ex: user,uid=tom,gid=users)
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| sebest wrote: | | I'm looking for mount options for vfat that allow to change the rights on it, because it defaults to something like 644, and it's too open to stock your ssh keys for example... |
try umask (umask=077 will give only the mounter access)
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don't forget scsi support when you add usb mass storage support (or you won't have any devices)
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| gschneider wrote: | | sebest wrote: | | I'm looking for mount options for vfat that allow to change the rights on it, because it defaults to something like 644, and it's too open to stock your ssh keys for example... |
try umask (umask=077 will give only the mounter access)
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don't forget scsi support when you add usb mass storage support (or you won't have any devices) |
thanx i also found this while reading the man of mount
(sometimes i post too quickly)
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/dev/sda1 /mnt/memstick vfat user,noauto,umask=0077 0 0
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I forgot to add that. I personally have the value "auto" instead of "vfat", as I personally run "mkreiserfs" over my stick, but my brother and my dad still have vfat. My entry for the stick in /etc/fstab is:
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# MY USB STICK
/dev/sda1 /mnt/stick auto noauto,user,exec 0 0
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Of course feel free to modify the options.....
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2003 7:08 am Post subject: |
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I had to have scsi-disk support and emulation b4 I could get mine to work.. just incase someone else can't either
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2003 8:58 am Post subject: Re: HOWTO USB Mass Storage Device and Gentoo :D |
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| pregopresto wrote: | ...
That's it I think! Exit and save configuration. Then compile and install the kernel as described in the Gentoo X86 Installation Guide and reboot your system with the new kernel.
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AFAIK, you don't need to reboot if all you do is add some modules. Simply do:
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And I'm not even sure if the make dep is necessary.
Be aware that if you are modifying anything related to a star (ie: compiled in), you'll need to reboot for the changes to take effect. But if usbcore, usb-storage, usb-uhci, and vfat were previously unchecked and you add them as modules, there should be no need to reboot. |
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hi, i've got a noname mp3 player/usb stick. whenever i plug it in, dmesg says:
| Code: | hub.c: new USB device 00:11.3-2, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x66f/0x3410) is not claimed by any active driver. |
the player is based on the stmp3410 from sigmatel and is supposed to work like a normal usb stick (i.e. usb mass storage device)
no idea whether it works under windoze w/o driver. they supplied a cdrom, but there seems to be only a small manager program that should simplify transfer to/from the stick. the manual says just plug in and use "removable device" via windoze exploder. so everything seems like mass storage
any suggestions?
p.s. using ac-sources (2.4.21-rcsomething) |
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taskara
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| Posted: Sun May 18, 2003 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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hmmm mine says | Quote: | hub.c: new USB device 00:02.1-1, assigned address 2
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: OTi Model: Flash Disk Rev: 1.11
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 258048 512-byte hdwr sectors (132 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
/dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
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it sounds like you don't have all the drivers you need. it knows it's there, so usb is fine, but you don't have something else.. hmmm.. did you add scsi disk support?
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2003 3:37 am Post subject: Re: HOWTO USB Mass Storage Device and Gentoo :D |
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Overall, pretty good. I had a couple of issues.
Instead of usb-uhci, I had to use usb-ohci (found near usb-uhci). Also, I had to include "SCSI support --->", "SCSI disk supprt" which provides the module "sd_mod.o". I thought I already had this included, so it took me a few minutes to realize the problem.
Also, I recommend anyone not familiar with these devices to be patient waiting for data to finish writing. I copied some files over that appeared to be finished before the LED started flashing. The LED then flashed for a while, and finally stopped. For whatever reason, the writing seems to be delayed.
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Yes, the writing of data to the disk is delayed, but this is the default. It is only noticeable because these flash memory devices are so much slower than a hard disk.
If you want the data to be written instantly, add "sync" to the mount options in /fstab:
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/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbflash auto noauto,user,exec,sync 0 0
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This makes it really slow (on my cheap USB 1.1 flash memory, at least), so I rather omit this and wait a little longer after unmounting the device. On the other hand, with "sync" enabled you probably don't risk data corruption if you forget to unmount the device before unpluging it.
I am currently experimenting with mounting my /home partition from an ext2 formatted USB flash memory device, so I can share it between my Laptop and Desktop and don't have to sync files all the time. So far I have found it save to call "/bin/sync" (writes all pending data to disks) from .bash_logout, and unplug the device without unmounting it. |
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2003 4:02 pm Post subject: Instead of modules.autoload |
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Another way instead of putting all of the modules for the USB in modules.autoload you can.
| Code: | | emerge sys-apps/hotplug |
| Code: | | rc-update add hotplug default |
Autoload or compile in USB core and then instead of the modules always being loaded the hotplug scripts take care of it. |
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| Posted: Fri May 23, 2003 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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here's your problem:
# USB support
# CONFIG_USB_STORAGE is not set
set this to "y"
also you may want to change the driver for your usb controller from a module to compiled directly in too
# USB support
CONFIG_USB_UHCI_ALT=y
save that, | Code: | | make dep clean bzImage modules modules_install |
| Code: | | mv /boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage.old |
| Code: | | mv arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot |
then run dmesg and see if it's different, or check /dev/sda
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mart_man00's problem has been split off to here.
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| Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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was following the howto, works fine, i just forgot adding scsi-disk support, after reading the posts i got enlightened
finally the stick works
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| I'm assuming that this works for USB hard drives as well. Is there a way that I can change the format of the USB mass storage devices from vfat to something like reiserfs? (I'm talking about for USB hard drives, not memory sticks) I'm assuming you can because I don't know why you wouldn't be able to, just wondering if anybody has done this. |
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| Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 11:32 am Post subject: |
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| kverastin wrote: | | I'm assuming that this works for USB hard drives as well. |
It does. I used it in order to mount the archos usb disk drive of a friend.
| Quote: | | Is there a way that I can change the format of the USB mass storage devices from vfat to something like reiserfs? (I'm talking about for USB hard drives, not memory sticks) I'm assuming you can because I don't know why you wouldn't be able to, just wondering if anybody has done this. |
I haven't done it, but I'm sure a "mkreiserfs /dev/sda1" will do that (that is assuming that sda1 is the device generated by the usb module and not your primary scsi disk ) Also, you shouldn't have it mounted while you create the file system and - of course - you will loose all data on your USB hd when you create a new fs). Furthermore, you won't be able to access your drive from most other OSs (sorry for all the banalities).
I had issues with 2.4.20 and usb, but 2.4.21 works great for me in that respect. I also endorse using the sync option for mount, with USB2.0 this is still way fast!
Final comment regarding the doc: you need either uhci or ohci, depending on your motherboard. For my ASUS P4PE it's uhci. |
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| mr_neutron wrote: |
I am currently experimenting with mounting my /home partition from an ext2 formatted USB flash memory device, so I can share it between my Laptop and Desktop and don't have to sync files all the time. So far I have found it save to call "/bin/sync" (writes all pending data to disks) from .bash_logout, and unplug the device without unmounting it. |
sounds rather scary to me, I wouldn't want to jeopardize my /home in that way. Have you tried net-misc/unison ? It's a very reliable and flexible, yet easy solution to keep your data in sync. |
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Yes, Unison is a nice tool. I have given up the original idea quickly, instead I used rsync to keep my "/home"s in sync via the USB Memory (all automated with .bash_profile and .bash_logout).
However, my laptop recently died, so I do not have to sync any more 
@ kverastin:
I don't have a USB hard drive, but you can handle a USB Memory stick just like a hard drive, even create multiple partitions on it and format them with different FS.
I tried reiserfs on my 128MB USB memory (just for fun). It works, but it is sloooow and you loose 33 MB for metadata. |
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Just to let people here know I compiled the following into the kernel and it works fine on my USB Pen Drive:
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usbcore
usb-storage
usb-uhci
vfat
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They don't have to be loaded as modules at least in my case. |
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| Thanks for the guide - it helped me to get my SmartDisk multi memory card reader to work - at least for the Sony Memory Stick, I don't have the others Looking forward to trying to get my USB Flash Drive to work when it arrives too. |
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Hi,
This post seems very good for me. However, after following the instructions (I recompiled the kernel with the provided options), modprobe could'nt locate the different modules:
modprobe usbcore
modprobe usb-storage
modprobe usb-uhci
modprobe vfat
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Do I have to compile them apart? Or have I forgotten something in the kernel compile command?
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Chris Finch
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| Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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maybe you have forgotten make modules and make modules_install?
what is the output of
| Code: | | ls -R /lib/modules/`uname -r` |grep usb |
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| Code: | | ls -R /lib/modules/`uname -r` |grep vfat |
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If that doesn't find the modules (with an o extension, assuming you use a 2.4 kernel) then you haven't installed them correctly. |
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I indeed did not compile the kernel using make modules and make modules_install commands....
That's now better.
However, here are two strange errors coming up when I "modprobe" usb-uhci and vfat...
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bash-2.05b# modprobe usb-uhci
Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.20/modules.dep
/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/usb/usb-uhci.o: init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/usb/usb-uhci.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/usb/usb-uhci.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/usb/usb-uhci.o: insmod usb-uhci failed
bash-2.05b# modprobe vfat
Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.20/modules.dep
/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/fs/fat/fat.o: unresolved symbol load_nls_Rsmp_afd2e7ee
/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/fs/fat/fat.o: unresolved symbol load_nls_default_Rsmp_535f6428
/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/fs/fat/fat.o: unresolved symbol utf8_wcstombs_Rsmp_863cb91a
/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/fs/fat/fat.o: unresolved symbol unload_nls_Rsmp_
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When I do the commands you asked, I got:
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bash-2.05b# ls -R /lib/modules/`uname -r` |grep usb
modules.usbmap
usb
/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/usb:
usb-ohci.o
usb-uhci.o
usbcore.o
/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/usb/storage:
usb-storage.o
36a16ffc
/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/fs/fat/fat.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/fs/fat/fat.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/fs/fat/fat.o: insmod vfat failed
and
bash-2.05b# ls -R /lib/modules/`uname -r` |grep vfat
vfat
/lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/fs/vfat:
vfat.o
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Any ideas??? Thnaks Chris for your support.
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Chris Finch
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Sebastien: pheew, no idea. The good news is that your modules are now in place, but why trying to load them should give that error I don't know. One thing you can try is to plug in your usb-device before you boot up. Did you reboot or do an update-modules?
I have had crazy problems with 2.4.20 and usb, but since I installed a vanilla 2.4.21 everything works very well. As a last resort, you can try that. |
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