[wplug] Core 6 Package Manager Problem Resolved

[Weber, Lawrence A]

Output of sbin/lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 001 : ID 0000:0000
CompactFlash device is plugged in with a card.

I also noticed on this installation that my floppy drive will not mount:
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
returns an error message that fd0 is not a block device.

It is not in /etc/fstab yet.


-laweber

-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-bounces+laweber=switch.com at wplug.org
[mailto:wplug-bounces+laweber=switch.com at wplug.org] On Behalf Of
Jonathan Billings
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 2:48 PM
To: General user list
Subject: Re: [wplug] Core 6 Package Manager Problem Resolved

Weber, Lawrence A wrote:
> With older versions of RH and FC I could mount a sda device to a 
> filesystem and have access to a compactflash connected to a USB port.
> FC 6 does not have SDA devices. 

To be specific, FC6 *does* have "SDA" devices (namely, SCSI disk
devices), however, it seems that your system isn't autodetecting the USB
Mass Storage devices, which uses SCSI emulation, so they appear as a
/dev/sd* device.

On recent Fedora (and other distros) systems, USB driver detection is
done by a process that detects devices being inserted.  It should
automatically load the appropriate module, in your case, usb_storage. 
Check to see if that kernel module is loaded by looking at the output of
/sbin/lsmod.

It'd be interesting if you could give us the output of /sbin/lsusb
(which is a command-line tool to list all USB devices the computer can
see.)

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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
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