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 ;-) -- -- dag wieers, dag at centos.org, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]