[wellylug] Unexplained (so far) incompatibility of USB card reader and Linux PC

Donald Rogers dero9753 at ihug.co.nz
Mon Oct 3 20:44:49 NZDT 2005


Here's what dmesg says in Fedora Core 4:
usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
SCSI subsystem initialized
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 2
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
 Vendor: Generic   Model: STORAGE DEVICE    Rev: 0100
 Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
usb-storage: device scan complete
SCSI device sda: 31680 512-byte hdwr sectors (16 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 02 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 31680 512-byte hdwr sectors (16 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 02 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda:<6>usb 1-5: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2

jumbophut wrote:

> Can you please supply the output from 4 commands, after having plugged
> in the stick (you'll have to type them into a console):


> uname -a
> lsmod
> mount
> ls /dev/sda


Here is what I got:
[root at pizza donald]# uname -a
Linux pizza.rogers 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 #1 Thu Jun 2 22:55:56 EDT 2005 i686 
i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root at pizza donald]# /sbin/lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
sd_mod                 20645  3
usb_storage            73225  1
scsi_mod              148105  2 sd_mod,usb_storage
ppp_deflate             5953  0
zlib_deflate           22745  1 ppp_deflate
ppp_async              12865  1
crc_ccitt               2113  1 ppp_async
ppp_generic            39893  6 ppp_deflate,ppp_async
slhc                    7105  1 ppp_generic
lp                     13001  0
autofs4                29253  2
ipt_REJECT              5569  1
ipt_state               1857  1
ip_conntrack           41497  1 ipt_state
iptable_filter          2881  1
ip_tables              19521  3 ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter
dm_mod                 58101  0
video                  15941  0
button                  6609  0
battery                 9413  0
ac                      4805  0
uhci_hcd               35152  0
ehci_hcd               41037  0
shpchp                 94405  0
parport_pc             28933  2
parport                40585  2 lp,parport_pc
i2c_viapro              8017  0
i2c_core               21569  1 i2c_viapro
snd_via82xx            30081  1
gameport               18633  1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_codec         75961  1 snd_via82xx
snd_seq_dummy           3653  0
snd_seq_oss            37057  0
snd_seq_midi_event      9153  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                62289  5 
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss            51185  0
snd_mixer_oss          17857  2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm               100169  3 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              33605  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          9669  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart        10049  1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi            30305  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          8781  4 
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd                    57157  11 
snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device 

soundcore              10913  2 snd
via_rhine              28361  0
mii                     5441  1 via_rhine
floppy                 65269  0
ext3                  132553  2
jbd                    86233  1 ext3
[root at pizza donald]# mount
/dev/hda6 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/hda3 on /mnt/hda3 type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
automount(pid1793) on /misc type autofs 
(rw,fd=4,pgrp=1793,minproto=2,maxproto=4)
automount(pid1840) on /net type autofs 
(rw,fd=4,pgrp=1840,minproto=2,maxproto=4)
[root at pizza donald]# ls /dev/sda
/dev/sda

I am still working on what others have said.
Thanks to all who have replied.
Donald




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