Hi, Excellent information, thanks for sharing. --- saugata ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a 64mb usb pen drive that wasnt working in > linux 2.6 kernel. > After some help from the net and trying out > various trial and error methods I could finally make > it work. > There was no complete HOWTO that worked. So I would > like to share > my experience. > > Theory: > > In theory if the kernel has scsi support and usb > support a usb pendrive should work. > But figuring out the right options in menuconfig is > tricky. > > Environment: > > Base OS: Redhat 8.0 > Kernel: 2.6.1 downloaded from kernel.org > > Steps that I followed: > > Recompile kernel with these options chosen from > menuconfig: > > Device Drivers -> > SCSI device support -> > <*>Support for usb, > [*] USB verbose debug mesage > <M>EHCI HCD > <M>OHCI HCD > <M>UHCI HCD > > Device Drivers -> > USB support -> > <*> SCSI Device support > <M> SCSI disk support > [*] legacy /proc/scsi support > [*] Probe all LUNs on each SCSI drive > [*] Build with SCSI REPORT LUNS support > [*] Verbose SCSI error reporting ... > [*] SCSI logging facility > > File Systems -> > DOS/FAT/NT File systems -> > <M> DOS FAT fs support > <M> MSDOS fs support > <M> VFAT (Windows 95) fs support >
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