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.