This is a problem my friend is having. She has a compact flash reader and would like to mount it to /mnt/removable.

Here at home this is a simple;

# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable


but she gets;

# /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device

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Here at home I figured out what dev to mount because it showed up at the bottom of dmesg but hers does not show any scsi device information.

Her motherboard has raid if that helps any (IDE Raid).

Im out of ideas.


We're both running RH8.0 out of the box.

# cat /proc/scsi/scsi

shows only the CD-RW/DVD drive..


hrm..

USB device? Check dmesg for any USB messages? Does USB mass storage module load. What USB and SCSI modules are being loaded.

Doesn't it show up in the "Hardware Browser?"

Check System Tools > Hardware Browser > Hard Drives.

My Sandisk SDDR-09 shows up under /dev/sda1.

Turtle

cdrecord -scanbus (as root) should also show it up.

Oooh, ooh, one more:

dmesg | grep sd

Cheers,

Finegan

Don't forget usbview....!

I plug the reader (with CF card already in it) and get this i dmesg:

# dmesg
.....
hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 4
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 4

Then I did what you said with cdrecord;

[root@amazon bkeating]# cdrecord --scanbus
Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J?rg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'SAMSUNG ' 'CDRW/DVD SM-308B' 'T100' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *

And here is /sbin/lsmod's readout:

[root@amazon bkeating]# /sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
sg 36556 0 (autoclean)
vfat 13084 0 (autoclean)
fat 38744 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
sd_mod 13584 0 (autoclean) (unused)
usb-storage 62000 0
cmpci 35944 0 (autoclean)
soundcore 6500 4 (autoclean) [cmpci]
autofs 13348 0 (autoclean) (unused)
8139too 17704 1
mii 2156 0 [8139too]
ipt_ttl 1144 1 (autoclean)
ipt_unclean 7704 3 (autoclean)
ipt_TCPMSS 3032 1 (autoclean)
ip_nat_irc 3504 0 (unused)
ip_nat_ftp 4240 0 (unused)
ipt_limit 1560 35 (autoclean)
ipt_state 1048 6 (autoclean)
iptable_mangle 2776 0 (unused)
ipt_LOG 4184 1
ipt_MASQUERADE 2200 1
ipt_TOS 1656 0 (unused)
ipt_REDIRECT 1368 0 (unused)
iptable_nat 19928 3 [ip_nat_irc ip_nat_ftp ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_REDIRECT]
ipt_REJECT 3736 0 (unused)
ip_conntrack_irc 3520 0 (unused)
ip_conntrack_ftp 5088 0 (unused)
ip_conntrack 21212 4 [ip_nat_irc ip_nat_ftp ipt_state ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_REDIRECT iptable_nat ip_conntrack_irc ip_conntrack_ftp]
3c59x 30608 1
iptable_filter 2412 1 (autoclean)
ip_tables 14840 15 [ipt_ttl ipt_unclean ipt_TCPMSS ipt_limit ipt_state iptable_mangle ipt_LOG ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_TOS ipt_REDIRECT iptable_nat ipt_REJECT iptable_filter]
ide-scsi 10512 0
scsi_mod 107176 4 [sg sd_mod usb-storage ide-scsi]
ide-cd 33608 0
cdrom 33696 0 [ide-cd]
mousedev 5524 0 (unused)
keybdev 2976 0 (unused)
hid 22244 0 (unused)
input 5888 0 [mousedev keybdev hid]
usb-uhci 26188 0 (unused)
usbcore 77056 1 [usb-storage hid usb-uhci]
ext3 70400 2
jbd 52212 2 [ext3]




any ideas? I don't get it.