On Sun, 30 Sep 2007, The Almighty Pegasus Epsilon wrote: > I've got a 1TB Western Digital USB drive, and when I connect it to my > linux machine, it shows it as both an HID device and a mass storage > device, but udev only generates the sg device node of the HID, and I > consequently can't seem to access the mass storage part, which is the > only part I actually care about. > > First, I'm not even sure if this is a kernel/USB driver issue, or a > udev issue, or a user issue, but if it's a udev issue, I ought to be > able to just run mknod with the right magic numbers and have it work, > but either i'm massively misunderstanding the enumeration of such > things, or even that doesn't work. > > In any case, I've gone so far as reading everything from google > results, to deciphering a good half of /proc/bus/usb/devices, to even > skimming kernel code, and either composite device support is still > being hammered out, or i need gadget support in there, or I'm > completely overlooking something. > > So the questions: Am I overlooking something? Do you need more > information (lsusb -v perhaps) to sort this out,
"more information"?! You have provided hardly any, beyond the fact that it doesn't work! > or do I actually need > to get to patching the kernel, or installing a development/release > candidate kernel, or should I just take this thing back to best buy? I > kinda need the space, as you can probably guess, as I paid for it, and > would seriously appreciate a quick fix, if one exists. The output from "dmesg" would help, and so would the contents of /proc/bus/usb/devices. It also wouldn't hurt if you mentioned which version of the Linux kernel you are using. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Linux-usb-users@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
