It should be the job of udev to load the correct module. This job used to be handled by hotplug. Of course, if usb-storage is already loaded, then you should jsut get some messages about /dev/sd* being created.
Kyle On Monday 15 May 2006 16:47, Thomas McLean wrote: > Kyle Gordon wrote: > > On Monday 15 May 2006 16:27, Philip Ward wrote: > >> Have you tried fdisk -l after plugging in the drive? > >> The system may choose to put it as sdb instead of sda. > >> fdisk -l will tell you where the drive is if it can be seen at all. > > > > Yep, tried that. When the drive is plugged in, nothing gets loaded. The > > USB Mass Storage guff in the logs mentioned earlier was from when I > > loaded the module manually. All that normally gets spewed out by dmesg is > > this... > > > > [4296247.023000] usb 4-4: USB disconnect, address 3 > > [4296249.229000] usb 4-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and > > address 4 > > [4296249.733000] usb 4-4: device not accepting address 4, error -71 > > [4296249.835000] usb 4-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and > > address 5 > > > > So, usb-storage isn't loaded, and /dev/sda* isn't present. the drive also > > doesn't appear in disk manglement mmc in Windows apparently. > > > > Kyle > > So I take it that when I plug the drive in usb-storage should turn on? > Because, if it's not present then why would it recognise it? I'm not > good with this sorta thing... > > Tam. > > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Scottish mailing list > >> Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk > >> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Scottish mailing list > > Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk > > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish > > _______________________________________________ > Scottish mailing list > Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish _______________________________________________ Scottish mailing list Scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/scottish