[Sussex] USB Flash drive using RedHat 8

[Brendan Whelan]

Hello,

I was out yesterday but have just looked again at my Flash drive problem. I
have taken the advice and simply used my Fedora FC 3 system (rather than
RedHat 8). I noticed an odd old entry for an sdb1 device so I:

fstab-sync --clean     (to tidy the /etc/fstab file)

Deleted the existing sdb1 line from /etc/fstab

Removed and then reconnect the flash drive.

It now works!

Thanks to all those who offered advice.

Regards,

Brendan Whelan
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History............
> Hello,
>
> I have just bought my first USB Flash Drive. It works fine under XP but
> my RedHat 8 system appears to make any attempt to access the drive i.e.
> the LED (on the chip) doesn't flash and no new drive appears in my list
> of partitions/devices.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,   Brendan
>

You could try looking at the output of dmesg ("dmesg | less"). There
should be something about the usb subsystem finding the device, and then
the SCSI system making a fake SCSI disk /dev/sda or something.

If nothing is happening, your USB hub probably isn't being seen. For a
start, do "lsmod | grep hcd". This will show you which of the ohci-hcd,
uhci-hcd and ehci-hcd modules are being used. Depending on the computer,
you need different ones (in fact, my laptop has two different grrr..).

If not all three are present, try "modprobe <u|e|o>hci-hcd" (depending
on the module) and see whether pretty lights start.

Another way of checking whether it's the hub is to plug a USB optical
mouse in. If the hub's enabled, the mouse is powered and the light turns
on. :)

Let us know how you get on,

Rupert

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