[CentOS] PenDrive still don't mount

Mon Jun 20 21:29:21 UTC 2005
Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org>

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On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 04:26:48PM -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 09:16:39PM +0200, Dominik Sk??adanowski wrote:
> > >>>Well, you pendrive is getting detected without a problem, it seems.
> > >>>
> > >>>Maybe it is just a Gnome problem about automounting it.
> > >>>
> > >>>Try:
> > >>># mkdir /mnt/pen
> > >>># mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/pen
> > >>
> > >>I have no such device - sda1. Thre is no any sdx devices :( It is strange.
> > >>
> > >>It happened, as I wrote before, after last 4.0 kernel update.
> > >
> > ># modprobe sd_mod
> > >
> > >Then check "dmesg" and /var/log/messages, and see if you get anything.
> > 
> > Here is dmesg after "modprobe sd_mod" 
> > (http://www.ch.pw.edu.pl/~dominik/dmesg), and here is /var/log/messages 
> > after "modprobe sd_mod" too (http://www.ch.pw.edu.pl/~dominik/messages).
> 
> That is really weird. Looks like hotplug is detecting an USB Mass Storage
> device and is, correctly, loading usb-storage. USB Storage is also detecting
> the mass storage device (since it is creating the scsi0 device).
> 
> But it looks like the scsi subsystem is not identifying it as an scsi
> disk. That, at least, is my tentative conclusion.
> 
> Anything of interest on /proc/scsi/scsi ?
> 
> Can you go to #centos on irc.freenode.net, so we can talk more
> directly ? Will be there for the next couple hours as "morcego".

Talked to him on IRC, and we tracked it down to the kernel. Looks
related either to the usb-storage or scsi_mod modules.

I'm downloading the 2.6.9-5.0.5 source tree right now, so I can compare
and see what shows up.

Will report back when I have more data.

[]s

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Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org>
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