On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, hyperaesthetic wrote:
> Howdy All,
>
> I am a noobie trying to get the sandisk usb drive working on my Redhat
> Enterprise Linux v.4. I have upgraded my 2-cpu Dell Precision 670 to
> RHEL v.4 just now and I am getting a lot of kinks all worked out, but
> this problem has eluded my many attempts to make the usb drive
> working.
>
> I learned a lot from reading this mailing list, but I still can not
> tell what's wrong with my setup.
>
> The usb drive worked fine in RH v9 and RHEL v.3 previously. I was able
> to modify the /etc/fstab and have it work on both my laptop (RH v.9
> with kernel 2.4.10-x) and this Dell machine (RHEL v.3 with kernel
> 2.4.x {i don't remember})
>
> What's working:
> The computer recognizes the presence of drive and has no issue when I
> give 'mount' command at the prompt as su.
>
> What's not working:
> When I tried to click on the icon on desktop, it doesn't show any
> files, and when I tried to get to the drive by ' cd /media/ESTUSA/'
> the computer would just freeze. 'umount' doesn't work as computer says
> it's busy (this is on other occasion when I dare not go into the
> drive).
>
> I will copy some output for your information. Any help will be very
> appreciated. So far, I am pretty disappointed with RHEL. All this
> automatic recognition really doesn't impress me a bit. Argh....
What would really help would be if you rebuild the kernel and turn on the
USB verbose debugging and USB Mass Storage verbose debugging options in
the configuration (CONFIG_USB_DEBUG and CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DEBUG). Then
post the dmesg log showing what happens when you plug in and mount the
drive.
Alan Stern
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