Unable to read/write usb 256mb memory stick

Aju · 12-12-2005, 04:53 AM

Hello,

Extremely sorry if the question put forth happens to be trivial,,(couldnt help it i did my best)

i have some problem with a 256MB USB memory stick which i tried connecting to my linux rh9.
i tried googling and experimented the following,

i added the line below in fstab

/dev/sda1 /mnt/stick vfat noauto,user,exec 0 0

and tried mounting after a re-login but to my great dismay i got the following error,,

mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device

i also tried analysing the messages, the kernel spat out,(i couldnt understand much although)

tail -f /var/log/messages,,

and i got the following output,,,
Dec 12 15:49:56 kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:14.2-2, assigned address 7
Dec 12 15:49:59 /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usb-storage for USB product 930/651d/100
Dec 12 15:50:00 devlabel: devlabel service started/restarted

i also pondered a bit on the basic check and the drivers exist in /proc/bus/usb

and the below is the output of the mount command,,
/dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
/dev/hda2 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/cdrom on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660 (ro)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)

whatever i do the error just seems perpetual,,
i couldnt get much info pertaining to my problem in the older threads also

any help will be profusely appreciated

thank u for ur patience and interest,

Ajay.

Sargek · 12-12-2005, 05:13 AM

If you boot with the device plugged in, what is the output of dmesg? If it's plugged in all the time, run

Code:

demesg | less

from a terminal window and scroll through the output. You should see what device node the system assigns to the device, then you can adjust your /etc/fstab accordingly.

Aju · 12-12-2005, 05:58 AM

Thank u Sargek for the prompt reply,,

I tried dmesg |less but couldnt understand what to look for to elicit the information required to edit fstab,,,,
I am not new to linux but definitely not good at it,,,sorry again

Ajay.

purelithium · 12-12-2005, 09:20 AM

Does running "fdisk -l /dev/sda" list the proper partitions for the usb drive?

mdg · 12-12-2005, 10:53 AM

Check with lsmod if you have modules "usb-storage" and "sd_mod" enabled.
There's good tutorial here:http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1256766,00.asp

Sargek · 12-12-2005, 07:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aju

Thank u Sargek for the prompt reply,,

I tried dmesg |less but couldnt understand what to look for to elicit the information required to edit fstab,,,,
I am not new to linux but definitely not good at it,,,sorry again

Ajay.

Basically what you are looking for is a /dev device. If you reboot with the usb stick inserted, then after the system is up, run dmesg | less and scroll through the text until you find /dev devices. You will see your hard drive listed as /dev/hda and your cdrom as /dev/hdc, or another letter. The usb stick should be picked up a scsi device, which will show as /dev/sda, or /dev/sdb, or some other letter. Whatever it shows as, would be what you would put in your /etc/fstab.

This is not related, but will matter once you figure out the device name: have you created the /mnt/stick directory? You referenced it in your post of your /etc/fstab, so if it is not created, you will need to do that beforr you can mount the stick there.

Aju · 12-13-2005, 03:57 AM

Thank u people for ur response,

Hello purelithium,I tried sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sda as u had mentioned and i didnt get any output(does that mean i have to mkfs /dev/sda?)

Hello mdg,,,i checked with lsmod and i have modules "usb-storage" and "sd_mod" enabled.and thanks a bunch for the link(it is indeed informative)

And Sargek,,,i tried rebooting with the usb stick and did the dmesg command after and this is what i got
hub.c: new USB device 00:14.2-2, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x930/0x651d) is not claimed by any active driver.
i couldnt understand the messages(i presume something is wrong with /dev/sda ,is that correct?)
and yes i have created the mount point

Ajay.

Reesl · 12-13-2005, 04:21 AM

I got problem on my USB Flash Drive too.

I am using similiar procedure as Aju and got bus_reset() not implemented and host_reset() implemented messages in dmesg

Is the Kernal too old ???

Sargek · 12-13-2005, 04:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aju

Thank u people for ur response,

Hello purelithium,I tried sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sda as u had mentioned and i didnt get any output(does that mean i have to mkfs /dev/sda?)

Hello mdg,,,i checked with lsmod and i have modules "usb-storage" and "sd_mod" enabled.and thanks a bunch for the link(it is indeed informative)

And Sargek,,,i tried rebooting with the usb stick and did the dmesg command after and this is what i got
hub.c: new USB device 00:14.2-2, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x930/0x651d) is not claimed by any active driver.
i couldnt understand the messages(i presume something is wrong with /dev/sda ,is that correct?)
and yes i have created the mount point

Ajay.

Can you do this for me:

Code:

dmesg > boot.txt

. This will place the dmesg content into a file called boot.txt. Attach the boot.txt file to a post so I can see it. I am curious as to why there are no /dev entries listed in the dmesg output. Thanks.

Aju · 12-14-2005, 02:42 AM

Hello Reesl,,, happy to know that i m not the only one suffering,

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sargek

Can you do this for me:

Code:

dmesg > boot.txt

. This will place the dmesg content into a file called boot.txt. Attach the boot.txt file to a post so I can see it. I am curious as to why there are no /dev entries listed in the dmesg output. Thanks.

Sure Sargek,,,

Code:

Linux version 2.4.20-8 (bhcompile@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Thu Mar 13 17:54:28 EST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000020000000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
512MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 131072
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 126976 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 547.628 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1091.17 BogoMIPS
Memory: 511412k/524288k available (1347k kernel code, 10312k reserved, 999k data, 132k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
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Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU:     After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xed8a0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/7110] at 00:14.0
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
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pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:14.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x2090-0x2097, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0x2098-0x209f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: ST340810A, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03c9f40, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: LTN323, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=5169/240/63, UDMA(33)
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 >
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 146k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 132k freed
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 17:59:01 Mar 13 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:14.2
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x2060, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
hub.c: new USB device 00:14.2-2, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x930/0x651d) is not claimed by any active driver.
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,3), internal journal
Adding Swap: 1043240k swap-space (priority -1)
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 177
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
hub.c: already running port 2 disabled by hub (EMI?), re-enabling...
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:14.2-2 address 2
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
USB Mass Storage support registered.
Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
sb: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones...
SB 3.01 detected OK (220)
ESS chip ES1869 detected
hub.c: Cannot enable port 2 of hub 1, disabling port.
hub.c: Maybe the USB cable is bad?
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
parport0: irq 7 detected
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver - version 2.1.29-k2
Copyright (c) 2002 Intel Corporation
 
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0d.0
e100: selftest OK.
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
e100: eth0: Intel(R) PRO/100+ Alert on LAN* Management Adapter
  Hardware receive checksums enabled
  cpu cycle saver enabled
 
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
parport0: irq 7 detected
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
hdc: DMA interrupt recovery
hdc: lost interrupt
hdc: status timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
hdc: status timeout: error=0x00
hdc: DMA disabled
hdc: drive not ready for command
hdc: ATAPI reset complete
hub.c: new USB device 00:14.2-2, assigned address 3
usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 2041
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 3
hub.c: already running port 2 disabled by hub (EMI?), re-enabling...
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:14.2-2 address 3
hub.c: Cannot enable port 2 of hub 1, disabling port.
hub.c: Maybe the USB cable is bad?

Thanks again for your interest and promptness

Ajay.

Sargek · 12-14-2005, 04:58 AM

Hmmm. Are you running a usb hub, and is the stick plugged into the hub? I don't think it would matter, but maybe the hub is causing a problem. If you are running a hub, try plugging the stick directly into a usb port on the PC and see if the stick gets picked up then. I am running a USB hub with no problems, but they might all be different.

Aju · 12-14-2005, 06:53 AM

Hello Sargek,,,,this might sound a bit weird but i dont have a separate usb hub and all i did is plug in the usb stick to one of the ports located at the back of the pc.

Reesl · 12-15-2005, 02:23 AM

Hi Ajay,

After I had upgraded the RedHat, I can access the USB drive now.
How about your case be Ok ?

Rees.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aju

Hello Reesl,,, happy to know that i m not the only one suffering,

Ajay.

ankita.dutta · 03-09-2009, 03:24 AM

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