On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Kristofer Bergstrom wrote: > I am trying to get a new portable audio recorder (the H4 Zoom -- > http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodID=1901) to > connect to my Debian testing (amd64) box. The device is compliant with > the USB 2.0 mass storage standard and I can get it to work on another > machine running Japanese Ubuntu (it automounts the device when I connect > it). > > After loading the usb_storage module (modprobe usb_storage) I > connect the device and tell it to connect to the computer. Watching my > syslog (tail -f /var/log/syslog), the connect sequence seems to be going > very well until the end, when it terminates in the following error: > > scsi.agent[15554]: sd_mod: can't be loaded (for disk) > > lsmod shows that I do not have the sd_mod module loaded, and I'm > unable to load it with "modprobe sd_mod" -- FATAL: Module sd_mod not > found. > > Checking my kernel configs (according to information I read here: > http://linuxgazette.net/133/tag.html) it turns out that I have the > CONFIG_SCSI and CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD modules compiled into the kernel. > For what it's worth, I'm using a kernel that a friend helped me compile. > > chappa:/tmp# grep CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD /boot/config-2.6.13.4.05102203 > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y > chappa:/tmp# grep -i sd /boot/config-2.6.13.4.05102203 > CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y > > Any ideas why the sd_mod module can't be found during the USB > connect sequence? The complete output of syslog during a connect > attempt is below. Thank you in advance for any help you're able to > provide.
The sd module can't be found because it doesn't exist! As you said, sd is compiled into the kernel, so it isn't a module. Don't ask me why the scsi.agent program thinks it needs to modprobe sd_mod -- it doesn't. Maybe you just have old versions of the hotplug packages. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
