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I dont know if the mknod command will be the right to do what I want
like I said when I plug my mp3 player (that uses a HD as internal storage) in my usb port happens. The device SDA isnt created, I cant mount it... but have to be some way, after all it is a HD ... Im using Gnomad2 to transfer files, but I want to know, learn more, and Im curious to know how its possible to see this Device, how can I explore its HD.... when I plug my pendrive the sda device appear and I can mount.
Originally posted by oneandoneis2 Get udev, it creates new /dev nodes for you whenever they're needed
hi, i have udev and when i plug in a pen drive, the /dev/sda? is not crated. Any ideas why?
lsusb lists the pen drive correctly, just no /dev is created. Here's my /etc/udev/udev/conf:
Code:
# udev.conf
# The main config file for udev
#
# This file can be used to override some of udev's default values
# for where it looks for files, and where it places device nodes.
# udev_root - where in the filesystem to place the device nodes
udev_root="/dev/"
# udev_db - The name and location of the udev database.
udev_db="/dev/.udev.tdb"
# udev_rules - The name and location of the udev rules dir
udev_rules="/etc/udev/rules.d"
# udev_permissions - The name and location of the udev permission dir
udev_permissions="/etc/udev/permissions.d"
# default_mode - set the default mode for all nodes that have no
# explicit match in the permissions file
default_mode="0600"
# default_owner - set the default owner for all nodes that have no
# explicit match in the permissions file
default_owner="root"
# default_group - set the default group for all nodes that have no
# explicit match in the permissions file
default_group="root"
# udev_log - set to "yes" if you want logging, else "no"
udev_log="yes"
THe thing is i was trying to make a pen drive work, but i was missing sd_mod module in the kernel and also the device that's used, at least in slack 10.1, is not /dev/sda, but /dev/uba. Does anyone know why? Does that have something to do w/ the fact that I'm using 2.6 kernel?
Maybe this is because your PenDrive have a diferent hardware so it is recognized like UBA, usb A, mine is recognized like a SCSI drive, sda...
this is just a guest, because I always used this pen drive from apacer never tested other and every distro recognize it like sd device...
Or maybe because this pen I use is usb2.0 and you are using 1.1 ??
remember that usb 2.0 and 1.1 have a lot of speed diference maybe this is why one is like a normal usb drive and the other is like a scsi drive... my external firewire hd is recognized like a scsi drive for its speed (400mb/s)
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