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

Mon May 25 18:26:02 UTC 2009
Ray Van Dolson <rayvd at bludgeon.org>

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?

Ray