Stephen Gran on 27 Jan 2005 05:09:53 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] kernel 2.6: usb compact flash reader


On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 10:53:55PM -0500, Jeff Abrahamson said:
> I upgraded from 2.4 to 2.6 today.  Now my compact flash reader doesn't
> work.  That is, the device doesn't work:
> 
>     jeff@asterix:jeff $ grep /cflash /etc/fstab
>     /dev/sda1   /cflash       vfat   defaults,user,noauto        0   0
>     /dev/sda1   /cflash-ro    vfat   defaults,ro,user,noauto     0   0
> 
>     jeff@asterix:jeff $ mount /cflash
>     mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
> 
>     jeff@asterix:jeff $ cat /proc/scsi/scsi
>     Attached devices:
>     Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
>       Vendor: CD-RW    Model: CDR-5W48         Rev: VSG3
>       Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> 
>     jeff@asterix:jeff $ lsusb
> 
>     jeff@asterix:jeff $ 
> 
> (In the above, I added an extra linefeed before each prompt for
> clarity.)
> 
> Any idea why I don't see the USB device shown, neither as usb nor as
> scsi?  Google hasn't found me much that's different from kernel 2.4.
> Any thoughts what to do?

Because sda is now your cdrom drive?  Just a guess.  Anything
interesting about usb or scsi in dmesg output?  Are you using hotplug,
udev, or any of those other auto sensing packages?  (clearly not a well
working one, judging by your recent mouse troubles :)
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