USB Thumb Drive Not Recognized

[Don Ruff]

Computer

iBook G3, 2001, dual USB

YDL 3.0 and no other operating system.

Using Logitech trackball on USB. The iBook works perfectly with the initial install.

It does not recognize my USB thumb drive. Tried both ports.

The thumb drive is recognized on on two PCs running ML 9.0

I don't know where to start and I would appreciate any suggestions.

I have been running Linux on PCs for 4 years.

Don Ruff

[kamika]

give us some log or dmesg output.

[Guest]

I hjave not forgotten about your request for either log or dmesg output to help me get the thumb drive recognized by my computer.

The modem seems to be the Apple equivalent of a Winmodem and doesn't work either without addtional effort and downloading of drivers.

The only way I have of getting information out of the iBook is to write it down and retype it. I can input data by writing it on CD.

I determined that the thumb drive is recognized in the Info Center. The mass storage seems to be loaded.

I will work on the modem and get the data requested.

I have named this computer "Helen Keller."

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Don Ruff

[Guest]

Here is the requested input :

/var/log/dmesg

input3: ADB HID on ID 3:3.01
adb: finished probe task...
Freeing unused kernel memory: 184k init 8k chrp 8k prep
hub.c: new USB device 10:19.0-1, assigned address 2
input: USB HID v10.01 Mouse [Logitech Trackball] on usb2:2.0
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,3), internal journal
Adding Swap: 1310392k swap-space (priority -1)


/var/log/messages - after plugging in the thumbdrive and typing in /tail -f (file name)

Aug 18 17:50:18 localhost kernel: hub.c: new USB device 10:18.0-1, assigned address 2
Aug 18 17:50:18 localhost kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x4e8/0x100) is not claimed by any active driver.
Aug 18 17:50:21 localhost /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usb-storage for USB product 4e8/100/1
Aug 18 17:50:21 localhost kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Aug 18 17:50:21 localhost kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
Aug 18 17:50:21 localhost kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Aug 18 17:50:21 localhost kernel: Vendor: CRUCIAL Model: USB DRIVE Rev: 1.12
Aug 18 17:50:21 localhost kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Aug 18 17:50:21 localhost kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Aug 18 17:50:21 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 251904 512-byte hdwr sectors (129 MB)
Aug 18 17:50:21 localhost kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Aug 18 17:50:21 localhost kernel: sda: sda1
Aug 18 17:50:21 localhost kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
Aug 18 17:50:21 localhost kernel: ohci1394: $Rev: 1045 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
Aug 18 17:50:21 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: Unexpected PCI resource length of 1000!
Aug 18 17:50:21 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[40] MMIO=[f5000000-f50007ff] Max Packet=[2048]

I can access the thumbdrive in Superuser by typing

mount /deve/sda1 /mnt/thumbdrive

Then I can copy the files from the thumbdrive to a user account, manipulate them, and transfer them
back to the thumbdrive using Superuser.

This seems the hard way, but it works for now. I still want the thumbdrive to hotplug.

Any help would be appreciated.

Don Ruff

[guest]

did you try a mkdir /mnt/usbdrive [than] mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 [space] /mnt/usbdrive works on slackware with a msdos formatted usb drive.. as far as hot plug goes i'm not really sure which conf file needs to be modified... once again...

mkdir /mnt/usbdrive
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive



---a guest---

[Ben Ben]

as far as hot plug goes i'm not really sure which conf file needs to be modified... once again...

Does anybody now how to configure Hotplug (for my Powerbook G3 Bronze) then? Because its verry annoying whent the system hangs and i got to restart just becuase of removing any connected USB-Device :-\

[StarKnight83]

As far as i know-the kernel has always had a few issues with hotplugging. Its why i learned to mount and unmount all my external drives and stuff manually. though you never did answer weather or not manually mounting and unmounting the drive still locked up your system. If it doesnt then you may just have to suffice with doing that until you install v4.0 and see if the new kernels have better support for it.

[Ben Ben]

@Knight: Well in my own thread in this board conecrining this prob I did If i just plug it in and out without mounting it or anything it crashes. If i'm mount it and unmount it afterwords it stillt crashes.
So you're right advising me to wait for ydl 4.0, maybe the pcmcia support for my wireless card is working than as well :-\