on Thursday 07/05/2007 Michael Niggli([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
> maxim wexler wrote:
> > Hi group,
> >
> > I posted earlier on this subject but scored no hits.
> > I've been poking around on the Web for answers but so
> > far without luck.
> >
> > When I plug the player into port and $dmesg, this
> > comes up:
> >
> > <SNIP>
> >
> > Why won't it assign a drive, like /dev/sda? It does on
> > another machine with virtually the same setup.
> >
> > Nothing shows up in udevinfo, cat /proc/partitions.
> >
> > but,
> >
> > #lsusb
> > Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04e8:9826 Samsung Electronics
> > Co., Ltd
> >
> > and
> >
> > $cat /proc/bus/usb/devices
> > <snip>
> > S: Manufacturer=NewTech Inc
> > S: Product=USB Mass Storage Device 2.0
> > <snip>
> >
> > I tried making the node manually(assuming /dev/sda)
> >
> > #mknod /dev/sda b 8 0
> >
> > but attempts to mount the device return "/dev/sda is
> > not a valid block device"
> >
> > What am I missing?
> >
> > Maxim
> >
> In the other post you mentioned that the kernel configs of those two
> machines are,
> concerning USB settings, the same. But how about SCSI disk support? It
> seems to
> be needed for USB storage, or at least its help text in menuconfig says
> so... :)
There is also another config which I found very helpful -- for at
least recognizing a card reader which is not in the default config and
that is
# Some SCSI devices (e.g. CD jukebox) support multiple LUNs
#
CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y
Hope this helps.
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