Driver for In-System USB hard drive box

["Richard G. Holst" <rgholst@adelphia.net>]

All,

I am a bit confused and need some help.

I am trying to get my external USB hard drive manufactured by In-Systems
Design  to connect to my RedHat 7.0 running a 2.4.2 Kernel. The hardware is
an Asus P5A motherboard with 128 MB of ram and a K6-3-450 Processor.

I checked and made sure the HotPlug was turned on and all the USB stuff in
the kernel was set to module. I can manually load the usb-ochi and the
usb-storage modules. When I load the storage module, I can see the LED on
the USB drive blink four different times. I checked the
/proc/sys/kernel/hotplug file and it does contain the path to /sbin/hotplug.
I put a echo statement in the /sbin/hotplug file as a test, and the file
does execute every time I plug the USB drive in and every time I unplug it.
Further investigation found that the /var/log/messages file was having the
following lines added when I plugged the drive in:

	kernel:  hub.c  USB new device connected on bus1/1, assigned device number
5

	/sbin/hotplug: ... no driver for USB product 5ab/31/100

I though that the usb-storage.o file was the drive of USB storage devices?

Does the USB hard drive require a special driver in addition to the modules
I have already loaded?

I checked the WEB site of In-Systems and there is no Linux drive posted. I
emailed their tech support and the claim that I should not need a driver for
Linux that it is already built into Linux.

Could someone please explain?  Does every USB device I want to connect to
Linux need an additional driver or are some drivers already present? How do
I know which drivers to use?

Thanks in advance,

Dick Holst
K2RH




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