I can't get an external USB hard drive to work with a FC4 laptop using a USB Cardbus PC card. The drive works fine on a different FC4 laptop, and I didn't do anything special.
I have a Compaq Armada M300 laptop (PII 333, 256 MB RAM) that I've installed FC4 on. The built-in USB port is only a 1.1, so I got a generic Cardbus PC card with two USB 2.0 ports on it. If I plug a camera into the PC card, it works fine - the "Import photos from camera?" dialog pops up, and no problems occur. So the PC card itself works, and the slot on the laptop work. But plugging in the hard drive does nothing. I even had the card inserted in the laptop with a USB hard disk attached during the install of FC4. I expected the hard drive to be automatically found and mounted under /media/usbdisk (which is what it did on my less-old Dell 2650). But, nothing ... the drive gets power from the card (LED goes on). Under the hardware browser's USB section, it sees: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (manufacturer unknown, driver uhci-hcd) NEC Corporation USB (manufacturer unknown, driver ohci-hcd) NEC Corporation USB (manufacturer unknown, driver ohci-hcd) NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (manufacturer unknown, driver ehci-hcd) FC4 didn't make /dev/sda* so I created them as root with 'mknod /dev/sda b 8 0' and 'mknod /dev/sda1 b 8 1' etc. But 'fdisk -l /dev/sda' returns nothing. The USB 2.0 card is a "Model XWT-745" Cardbus 32-bit pc card with two USB 2.0 ports. Searching Google for 'XWT-745' returns nothing so I figure this is some totally generic no-name item. It's responsible for the three NEC Corporation entries in the hardware browser though; at least, when I yank it out, only the Intel entry remains. Any suggestions? The only other drive in the system is a IDE at /dev/hda, so I assumed that the USB drive would be /dev/sda. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
