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