On Saturday 03 February 2007 19:04, ka1ifq wrote: > here is what is in the log now: > > Feb 3 19:46:45 Suse101 kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using > uhci_hcd and address 2 > > SNIP This continues. > > Feb 3 19:47:47 Suse101 kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using > uhci_hcd and address 126 > Feb 3 19:47:48 Suse101 kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using > uhci_hcd and address 127 ... > Why can't it be so simple with the memory stick? > Do I need to format it? > It does work once it gets mounted, and also works fine on XP and W2k. > > Mike
I played a bit with monitoring the /media directory,with ll and connecting and disconnecting USB stick and hard disk. It was leaving subdirectory after each disconnect, and number of such directories was growing. As original was already present, each new try produced the same base name with added -1, next time -2 and so on. The .hal-mtab was growing too. Simple delete directories didn't worked: linux:/media # rmdir WDC rmdir: WDC: Device or resource busy linux:/media # mount ... /dev/sda1 on /media/WDC type vfat \ (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,uid=1000,utf8,shortname=lower) Than I unmounted manually and deleted entry, deleted also files .hal-mtab .hal-mtab-lock run rchal restart that recreated .hal-mtab-lock and than it would remove subdirectories when USB flash storage was disconnected, until I added external hard disk, connected and disconnected USB stick, what left some of directories hanging around. I removed all again, did hald restart and used only external hard disk. It left few directories. The other command tail -f /var/log/message produced a lot of this: Feb 4 03:31:04 linux kernel: ReiserFS: sda3: warning: zam-7001: io error in reiserfs_find_entry Feb 4 03:31:04 linux kernel: scsi 17:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device Feb 4 03:31:04 linux kernel: ReiserFS: sda3: warning: zam-7001: io error in reiserfs_find_entry Feb 4 03:31:04 linux kernel: scsi 18:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device Feb 4 03:31:04 linux kernel: ReiserFS: sdb3: warning: zam-7001: io error in reiserfs_find_entry Feb 4 03:31:04 linux kernel: scsi 18:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device Feb 4 03:31:04 linux kernel: ReiserFS: sdb3: warning: zam-7001: io error in reiserfs_find_entry As you can see kernel is probing every /dev/sda,b and further c,d,e,f that are not listed and can't find them. That may take time. Restarting hal alone doesn't change a thing. Rebooting clears all entries, but with linux it is not necessary to reboot all too often, and I didn't tested what happens after suspend and resume. You can run ll /media and see what you have there. Note the size of .hal-mtab -- Regards, Rajko. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
