Re: USB Mass Storage devices

Try using the devfs structure. /dev/scsi/.... For example,
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/disc is the device referring to the whole
disc on the first scsi host, first bus, first target.
Just a thought.

On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 06:37, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > I'm having trouble mounting my USB mass storage devices with my linux
> 2.6.6 kernel. I have the hotplug support compiled into my kernel and
> the hotplug script, /etc/rc.d/rc.hotplug seems to be working fine.
> What happens when I do a 'cdrecord -scanbus', I can see that my USB
> device does get registered as a valid SCSI device and appropriately
> assigned something like 0,0,0 ... and the manufacturer is listed and
> all that. But when I try and mount the thing as 'mount -t vfat
> /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb, I keep getting a message that /dev/sda1 is not a
> valid block device. I also tried other devices such as /dev/sdb1,
> sdc1... but same results. I was able to earlier get these things
> mounted after rebooting the machine with the device already plugged in
> but now that doesn't work anymore. I dohave to admit I moved this all
> over to a new mother board with new hardware so that could complicate
> things a bit but still, How can I figure out the linkage between the
> valid USB mass storage device, SCSI and a valid mount device?
>
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