[CentOS] lacie drive and CentOS 5.3 question...
Dag Wieers
dag at centos.org
Mon May 25 19:24:03 UTC 2009
On Mon, 25 May 2009, Dag Wieers wrote:
> 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 :)
After doing some research it seems that this is valid, if you perform:
modprobe -c
you get an identical list for all known devices. So adding yours should
definitely help.
PS What kind of LaCie disk is it ? I recently bought a 500GB LaCie Little
Disk and that one worked fine.
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