Fedora driver or compatability with flash USB drive (iomega)

Edward edward at tripled.iinet.net.au
Mon Sep 13 03:57:49 UTC 2004



Adam Boettiger wrote:

> Pasha wrote:
> 
>> Look in /var/log/messages and see what device model name reported. Then
>> you can try to add match entry to /etc/updfstab.conf.default to mount
>> the device automatically.
> 
> 
> So here is what I believe to be the portion of the log that shows the 
> detection of the Iomega drive.
> 
> How and where do I "add match entry" to /etc/updfstab.conf.default ?
> 
> -- 
> 
> Sep 11 20:05:00 localhost kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
> Sep 11 20:44:03 localhost kernel: usb 1-3: new high speed USB device 
> using address 2
> Sep 11 20:44:03 localhost kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> Sep 11 20:44:03 localhost kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass 
> Storage devices
> Sep 11 20:44:04 localhost kernel:   Vendor: I0MEGA    Model: 
> Mini512MB*IOM2A3  Rev: 4.70
> Sep 11 20:44:04 localhost kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access               
> ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Sep 11 20:44:04 localhost scsi.agent[3005]: disk at 
> /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-3/1-3:1.0/host0/0:0:0:0
> Sep 11 20:44:04 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new driver 
> usb-storage
> Sep 11 20:44:04 localhost kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
> Sep 11 20:44:04 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 1019392 512-byte hdwr 
> sectors (522 MB)
> Sep 11 20:44:04 localhost kernel: sda: assuming Write Enabled
> Sep 11 20:44:04 localhost kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
> Sep 11 20:44:04 localhost kernel:  sda: sda1
> Sep 11 20:44:04 localhost kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at 
> scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> Sep 11 20:44:05 localhost kernel: inserting floppy driver for 2.6.5-1.358
> Sep 11 20:44:08 localhost kernel: floppy0: no floppy controllers found 
> Sep 11 20:44:08 localhost modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting floppy 
> (/lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/kernel/drivers/block/floppy.ko): No such device
> 

try mounting the device manually first, to make sure it is OK. As you 
can tell from above, it's been installed at /dev/sda, so mount /dev/sda1.

Regards,
Ed.






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