From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Richard G. Holst" Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 22:38:18 +0000 Subject: Driver for In-System USB hard drive box Message-Id: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org 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 _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel