From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Kelly Subject: Re: fedora and how to get mass storage devices (memory card readers) to work Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 18:16:41 +0100 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040414181641.137a5e65.bilbo@waitrose.com> References: <20040413025903.GD3579@panix.com> <20040413171659.03c65dda.bilbo@waitrose.com> <20040414023454.GA10063@panix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20040414023454.GA10063@panix.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 22:34:55 -0400 Rei Shinozuka wrote: > well, lsmod did show: > > > Module Size Used by Tainted: P > usb-storage 75136 0 > .... > > and interestingly, usbview > showed the the card reader is recognized: > > http://www.shinozuka-family.com/USBViewer.jpg > > but the last 2 commands return errors: > > [root@tuxedo root]# mount -t usbdevfs 0 /proc/bus/usb > mount: 0 already mounted or /proc/bus/usb busy > mount: according to mtab, usbdevfs is already mounted on > /proc/bus/usb[root@tuxedo root]# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb/ > mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device > [root@tuxedo root]# > > i feel we are getting closer!! > > thanks, > The error you get while trying to mount usbdevfs is a good thing - it shows ussbdevfs is already mounted. Well there is one other thing, is generic SCCI support enabled? This can be compiled into the kernel or loaded as a module. lsmod should show the generic SCCI module as sg. For example on my system, I get: jpk@debian:~$ /sbin/lsmod | grep sg sg 24420 0 (unused) And if SCCI support is in the kernel (either as a module or compiled in) and you still get an error trying to mount /dev/sda1, then I would suggest trying to mount another SCCI drive. ie. Try mount -t vfat /dev/sda2 /mnt/usb/ or mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb/ I am not sure but I seem to recall that with generic scci, the first 'thingy' to use it gets the first scci device ie /dev/sda and the next 'thingy' gets the next scci device. So if something is using /dev/sda1 - for example a cd writer - then the usb device will be the next available scci device. regards, John Kelly - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs