umass0 -- yes, daX -- no?

Mikhail Teterin mi+mx at aldan.algebra.com
Wed Mar 16 08:30:40 PST 2005


> In the last episode (Mar 15), Mikhail Teterin said:
> > I'm trying to access the file system on a usb memory key. When I
> > insert it, however, kernel duly reports creation of umass0, but not
> > the da1 (da0 is my ZIP drive).
> >
> > According to usbdevs -d, I have:
> >
> > 	addr 1: OHCI root hub, SiS
> > 	  uhub0
> > 	 addr 2: Dell USB Memory Key, M-Systems
> > 	   umass0
>
> You might have a device that's not known in umass's table.  It looks
> like it needs to know the protocol before it will create a da* device;
> try editing /sys/dev/usb/usbdevs and adding a DISKONKEY3 entry (usbdevs
> -dv should print the hex IDs you need), and copy one of the existing
> DISKONKEY array entries in umass.c.

Thanks, I'll try. This is disheartening, however... I was pretty sure, 
anything, that support USB Mass Storage would work "out of the box" :-(

	-mi


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