[CentOS] lacie drive and CentOS 5.3 question...

[Dag Wieers]

On Mon, 25 May 2009, Ray Van Dolson wrote:

> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 11:17:30AM -0700, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
>> Can anyone advise me on how I can tell my system the above device is a
>> mass storage device?  Do I need to write some udev rules?
>
> Sorry for replying to my own post, but upon further investigation, it
> appears that perhaps the usb-storage module doesn't have the correct
> matching pattern in place to detect this as a mass storage device:
>
> udevmonitor reports the device having a module alias of:
>
>  usb:v0451p6250d0300dcFFdsc00dp00icFFisc00ip00
>
> And modinfo usb-storage shows:
>
>  # modinfo usb-storage | grep v045
>  alias:          usb:v045Ap5210d0101dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
>  alias:          usb:v0457p0151d0100dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
>  alias:          usb:v0457p0150d0100dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
>  alias:          usb:v0451p5416d0100dc*dsc*dp*ic*isc*ip*
>
> Which obviously won't match.  So the question is, how do I add a new
> alias to the module?  And will the module even support my device?

Just a wild an crazy idea, how about adding it to /etc/modprobe.conf ?

 	alias usb:v0451p6250d0300dcFFdsc00dp00icFFisc00ip00 usb-storage

Not sure if it makes sense, but it's worth trying :)

This BTW is a question I have had before and if we find the answer I think 
this is food for the upcoming CentOS Newsletter ;-)

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