Hi, For the past few weeks I have been tearing my hair out (and I dont have much to begin with :-) ) trying to get the Vosonic X's drive (VP 2030) working under Mandrake 9 (kernel 2.4.19 I think). Vosonic say that this device should work under all 2.4 kernels and above without any additional drivers (http://www.vosonic.com/index.php?php_mode=read_faq&php_classid=9&php_itemid =5) and for those who cannot get it working they have provided a brief FAQ to get it working. But the FAQ talks about the USB manager and vendor id table updates which is not in Mandrake 9 (which uses hot plugging). I have no idea how to configure Mandrake 9 to recognise it.
The X's drive is an external USB hard drive and card reader unit. It is designed to act independently as a card reader and an external USB hard drive (it has a 20Gb hard drive in it) and also combines the two functions to allow you to copy the contents of a card (e.g. Smart media) onto the hard drive at the touch of a button (no computer) - really useful when on holiday. When I plug in the unit, Mandrake recognises that a storage device has been plugged in. The unit is found as /dev/sda, but it is only being found as a 1Gb drive (its 20Gb) and does not allow any write to it. It is not a drive fault because it works perfectly under Windoze. The usb drive is formatted in a single partition as FAT32 (needed for card to HD transfer mech.) Using Mandrake diskdrake it comes back with "I can't read the partition table of device sda, it's too corrupted for me :( I can try to go on, erasing over bad partitions (ALL DATA will be lost!). The other solution is to not allow DrakX to modify the partition table. (the error is unknown partition table format on disk /dev/sda. )" fdisk dosn't want to know at all and returns "You will not be able to write the partition table. Unable to read /dev/sda" usb storage is switched on in /etd/sysconfig/usb The message log /var/log/messages reports: Jan 15 10:41:49 localhost kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 6 Jan 15 10:41:49 localhost /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usb-storage for USB product d7d/240/100 Jan 15 10:41:50 localhost kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed. Jan 15 10:41:50 localhost kernel: sda : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 08 Jan 15 10:41:50 localhost kernel: Current sd00:00: sense key Not Ready Jan 15 10:41:50 localhost kernel: Additional sense indicates Medium not present Jan 15 10:41:50 localhost kernel: sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB. Jan 15 10:41:50 localhost kernel: sda: Write Protect is on Jan 15 10:41:50 localhost kernel: /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Jan 15 10:41:50 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 Jan 15 10:41:50 localhost kernel: unable to read partition table Jan 15 10:41:50 localhost kernel: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 If anyone has any ideas, I (and my hair) would be most grateful. Cheers Mike Ross. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: FREE SSL Guide from Thawte are you planning your Web Server Security? Click here to get a FREE Thawte SSL guide and find the answers to all your SSL security issues. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0026en _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
