[ale] quick USB storage device question

Pete Hardie pete.hardie at sciatl.com
Tue Jul 6 08:36:31 EDT 2004


Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> My device is actually a Hard Disk mounted in a USB enclosure.  I can
> mount it just fine in my fileserver.  This is the output from it:
> scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
>  Vendor: FUJITSU   Model: MHR2040AT         Rev:  0 0
>  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> SCSI device sda: 78140160 512-byte hdwr sectors (40008 MB)
> sda: assuming drive cache: write through
> 
> However, when mounting in the machine that I want to use it in, I don't
> get the same output (I get the output from my first email [seen
> below]).  I'm using kernel 2.6.1 and I'm trying to see what's different
> between the 2 kernel builds.
> 
> If anyone can see an obvious kernel option that I'm missing, I'd
> appreciate a lead...!

While trying to get a USB pendrive working, I ran across several pages, and one 
of them mentioned the commands that are part of the sg package as a way to find 
the device names - try a google for USB + 6-in-1 memory card reader.  I'll check 
my bookmarks at home for the page, also.

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