Thanks for your reply,
I have made some small progress but my /dev/usb and /dev/scsi are blank.  I'm 
not sure what to do now.  I did discover that I was not using the USE flag 
usb, which I have now corrected but still no device recognition.

regards
Paul

On Tue 1 July 2003 13:04, Stroller wrote:
> On 30/6/03 11:28 am, "Paul Stear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I may be missing something but I have been trying to get a usb storage
> > device to work and to get my dv camera to work via my firewire board.
> >
> > Is their a how-to, user guide, instructions, etc that I can look at?
> > If anyone has these items working perhaps they will be kind enough to
> > send me instructions and copies of any config files.
>
> I would have thought that this was such a common topic, that I'm surprised
> that no-one else has answered this already, and I'm sorry that you've had
> to wait so long for my humble reply.
>
> I can't comment (yet) on configuring hardware, but I recently recompiled
> the kernel on my Vaio C1 to support my USB flash memory drive. Formerly the
> USB floppy drive worked fine, but I got errors when I tried the flash
> stick.
>
> I cannot give you a precise answer as to how to fix this, because I
> resolved it myself using trial & error. Currently the following items are
> selected in `make menuconfig`:
> - Memory Technology Device (MTD) support
>   - MTD partitioning & concatenating
>   - RAM/ROM/Flash chip drivers - lots of 'em
>   - Mapping drivers for chip access - none
>   - Self-contained MTD device drivers - lots of 'em
>   - NAND Flash Device Drivers - not selected
> - SCSI support
>    - scsi disk & scsi generic selected, hardly any low-level drivers chosen
> - USB Support
>    - USB verbose debug messages
>         (`tail -f syslog` when you plug the device in)
>    - Miscellaneous USB options - all of 'em
>    - USB Host Controller Drivers - all of 'em
>    - USB Mass Storage support - all of 'em
>
> I think these options should be sufficient to get you up & running with
> USB.
>
> My /etc/fstab now has two entries thus:
>
>   # Vaio USB floppy
>   /dev/sda    /mnt/floppy     auto    user,noauto,rw    0 0
>   # LAKS Watch USB Flash Storage
>   /dev/sda1   /mnt/laks       auto    user,noauto,rw     0 0
>
> Someone posted this http://cvs.gentoo.org/~spider/ URL yesterday - I seem
> to recall that my flash device is FAT formatted, so of course you will also
> need DOS filesystem types enabled.
>
> I hope you find this information useful,
>
> Stroller.

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