On 16:29 Wed 16 Feb, Calvin Spealman wrote: > For most of the time my machine has been set up, I have been able to use USB > storage devices without any trouble (mostly). Recently, after a kernel > upgrade, I found that /dev/sda had gone missing. The confusing part is that > I hadn't changed any configurations in the kernel for anything at all. The > modules are all loaded, and I can even see the device in lsusb, I just > don't have a block device to mount it from. So, what could be causing this > and how can I fix it? Manually creating the node isn't a problem, if I can > find the major-minor numbers, which I can't. >
When i upgraded to 2.6.10 i realised than /dev/sda1 was missing.
After several tries i fixed it with a symlink like this:
# ln -s /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /dev/sda1
An then my USB memory card worked again
Hope this helps. Regards.
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