USB memory sticks and RHEL 4

["Bjorn S. Nilsson" <nilsson nbi dk>]

Hi,

Certain memory sticks are not mounted directly under RHEL-4 WS upd.1
and not even mountable manually. E.g., when inserting a 512 MB
Kingston stick on a HP nw8000 the end of dmesg reads

usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using address 3
SCSI subsystem initialized
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
USB Mass Storage device found at 3
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.

/proc/scsi/device_info lists a lot of devices, but no Kingston

/proc/scsi/scsi displays only the text
Attached devices:

cat /proc/scsi/usb-storage/0 displays
   Host scsi0: usb-storage
       Vendor: Kingston
      Product: DataTraveler2.0
Serial Number: 08316640D1A278F2
     Protocol: Transparent SCSI
    Transport: Bulk
       Quirks:

Finally, no /dev/sda device is created.

This memory stick works fine with the alternative OS on the laptop.
I see the same behaviour when I try on other machines running RHEL-4.
However, I have also tried other memory sticks, and they work.

And to make things even worse, this memory stick works exactly as
expected on an older laptop with USB-1 and RHEL-3 WS.

What has RedHat changed, and is there anything I can do to make the
memory stick useable on RHEL-4 ?

TIA,

Bjorn

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