Hey!

I can't get my JOGR USB flash-disk to work on Mandrake10


1. Also: I've formatted it to FAT32, but it still doesn't help.

2. I see that many people are having problems with this sort of thing.

I've checked out a few threads and even this:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...icle&artid=115

3. The address above links to a USB HOWTO. I think it really suits me, but the flash-disk is a USB2 device, whereas the ports on my computer are USB1.

I've had it working in Windows with USB1 but do you think this will be a problem in Linux?


Hence, do you think that I should go through all of the steps in the HOWTO exactly as it says there?


If you think that the HOWTO is not useful, can you suggest anything else?


If you think that the HOWTO is applicable to my case, here's what has happened:
On the HOWTO, it says

$su
password: (enter root password here)
#cd /usr/src/linux
#make menuconfig


when I do it:

# cd /usr/src/linux
bash: cd: /usr/src/linux: No such file or directory


What I do have is:

[root@localhost grisha]# cd /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/
athlon i386 i486 i586 i686 k6 noarch
[root@localhost grisha]# cd /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/



What do I do from now on?

- - Please bear in mind that I am a beginner, so can you please have the patience to explain all the terms you use.

Thank you!

following the requests of a moderator named finegan

here's what I got:

[grisha@localhost grisha]$ uname -r
2.6.3-4mdk
[grisha@localhost grisha]$ dmesg /sbin/lsusb
Linux version 2.6.3-4mdk (nplanel@n3.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version 3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux 10.0 3.3.2-6mdk)) #1 Tue Mar 2 07:26:13 CET 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000ea400 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000007bf0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000007bf0000 - 0000000007bffc00 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 0000000007bffc00 - 0000000007c00000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffe0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
123MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 31728
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 27632 pages, LIFO batch:6
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x000f7520
ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD RSDT 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x07bfc6e7
ACPI: FADT (v001 COMPAQ Borg 0x06040000 PTL_ 0x000f4240) @ 0x07bffb64
ACPI: BOOT (v001 PTLTD $SBFTBL$ 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x07bffbd8
ACPI: DSDT (v001 Compaq Wrangler 0x06040000 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x8008
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=301 devfs=mount resume=/dev/hda5 splash=silent
bootsplash: silent mode.
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 512 (order 9: 4096 bytes)
Detected 850.350 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Memory: 121712k/126912k available (1815k kernel code, 4660k reserved, 846k data, 272k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 1679.36 BogoMIPS
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 131k freed
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0387fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0387fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU serial number disabled.
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000040
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 849.0902 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 99.0988 MHz.
NET: Registered protocol family 16
EISA bus registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd83e, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040211
Looking for DSDT in initrd ... not found!
ACPI: IRQ10 SCI: Edge set to Level Trigger.
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Address space collision on region 9 of bridge 0000:00:07.4 [8080:808f]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs *9 11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 9 *11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs *9 11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 9 *11 12)
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 1)
ACPI: Power Resource [PLPC] (on)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
PnPBIOS: Disabled
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 9
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 9
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacpi' or even 'acpi=off'
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf5000000, mapped to 0xc8807000, size 4096k
vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=3
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:643e
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
SBF: Simple Boot Flag extension found and enabled.
SBF: Setting boot flags 0x1
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
ikconfig 0.7 with /proc/config*
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Initializing Cryptographic API
PCI: Disabling Via external APIC routing
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
bootsplash 3.1.3-2003/11/14: looking for picture.... silentjpeg size 14856 bytes, found (800x600, 14808 bytes, v3).
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 92x32
pty: 1024 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:07.1
VP_IDE: chipset revision 16
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci0000:00:07.1
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1420-0x1427, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1428-0x142f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddio
hda: TOSHIBA MK2017GAP, ATA DISK drive
Using anticipatory io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2502, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 39070080 sectors (20003 MB), CHS=38760/16/63, UDMA(33)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 < p5 p6 >
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 92x32
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1
Firmware: 4.6
Sensor: 15
new absolute packet format
Touchpad has extended capability bits
-> four buttons
-> multifinger detection
-> palm detection
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad on isa0060/serio1
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa0
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
BIOS EDD facility v0.12 2004-Jan-26, 1 devices found
Please report your BIOS at http://linux.dell.com/edd/results.html
Resume Machine: resuming from /dev/hda5
Resuming from device hda5
Resume Machine: This is normal swap space
PM: Reading pmdisk image.
PM: Resume from disk failed.
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S4 S5)
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Mounted devfs on /dev
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 272k freed
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usbfs
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hub
drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: irq 11, io base 00001400
uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
Adding 511520k swap on /dev/hda5. Priority:-1 extents:1
SCSI subsystem initialized
imm: Version 2.05 (for Linux 2.4.0)
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
parport_pc: Via 686A parallel port: io=0x378
ppa: Version 2.07 (for Linux 2.4.x)
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected VIA Apollo ProMedia/PLE133Ta chipset
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 90M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda6, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Supermount version 2.0.4 for kernel 2.6
Linux Tulip driver version 1.1.13 (May 11, 2002)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (off-line)
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1 C2)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (33 C)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
Linux Kernel Card Services
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:0b.0 [0e11:b103]
Yenta: Enabling burst memory read transactions
Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI
Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0018, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000020
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 -> 0003)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0x4000, 00:E0:98:BF:60:06, IRQ 11.
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x220-0x22f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
inserting floppy driver for 2.6.3-4mdk
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
NET: Registered protocol family 17
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:07.5 to 64
atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: This is an XFree86 bug. It shouldn't access hardware directly.
atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: This is an XFree86 bug. It shouldn't access hardware directly.
bootsplash 3.1.3-2003/11/14: looking for picture.... found (800x600, 11943 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.3-2003/11/14: looking for picture.... found (800x600, 11943 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 1 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.3-2003/11/14: looking for picture.... found (800x600, 11943 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 2 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.3-2003/11/14: looking for picture.... found (800x600, 11943 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 3 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.3-2003/11/14: looking for picture.... found (800x600, 11943 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 4 changed to on
bootsplash 3.1.3-2003/11/14: looking for picture.... found (800x600, 11943 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 5 changed to on
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c035fa20(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 2
hub 1-2:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-2:1.0: 1 port detected
usb 1-2.1: new full speed USB device using address 3
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: USB 2.0 Model: Flash Disk Rev: PROL
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 3
SCSI device sda: 512000 512-byte hdwr sectors (262 MB)
sda: assuming Write Enabled
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: inconsistent partition table (overlap)
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 2
usb 1-2.1: USB disconnect, address 3

I dont have your answer, but i do know you are the 20.000th thread starter in linux hardware
congratz

Your USB drive is working. I think you have multple partitions on it from the logs. To make sure type "fdisk -l /dev/sda" as root or su. If you have multiple partitions, you will have to copy all files using a Windows or MAC system. Then as su or root type "rmmod sd_mod" and put the USB drive back in the Linux system. Next type "modprobe sd_mod". You should see /dev/sda again. Again type "fdisk -l /dev/sda". Next as su or root type "cfdisk /dev/sda". Then delete all partitions on /dev/sda. Then create one big primary partition and set the type to b. After that you will have disconnect the USB drive and run rmmod again. Then connect the USB drive back in again and run the modprobe command. Finally to format the USB drive as FAT, type "mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1". Now you should have a USB drive perfectly formated as FAT and you should not have any problem in any OS that can read FAT. Windows just screws up trying to format USB flash mediums.

Thank you very much for your help, but there is one problem:

when I typed "cfdisk /dev/sda" I got:

FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 0: Partition begins after end-of-dis
Press any key to exit cfdisk


This is the stuff the lead up to this error:

[grisha@localhost grisha]$ su
[root@localhost grisha]# fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 262 MB, 262144000 bytes
9 heads, 56 sectors/track, 1015 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 504 * 512 = 258048 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 ? 1543921 3808821 570754815+ 72 Unknown
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(357, 116, 40) logical=(1543920, 4, 5)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(357, 32, 45) logical=(3808820, 4, 35)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 ? 334702 4176028 968014120 65 Novell Netware 386
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(288, 115, 43) logical=(334701, 3, 51)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(367, 114, 50) logical=(4176027, 2, 42)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3 ? 3710083 7551409 968014096 79 Unknown
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(366, 32, 33) logical=(3710082, 2, 26)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(357, 32, 43) logical=(7551408, 0, 25)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda4 ? 1 7216720 1818613248 d Unknown
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(372, 97, 50) logical=(0, 0, 1)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(0, 10, 0) logical=(7216719, 2, 8)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Partition table entries are not in disk order
[root@localhost grisha]# rmmod sd_mod
[root@localhost grisha]# modprobe sd_mod
[root@localhost grisha]# fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 262 MB, 262144000 bytes
9 heads, 56 sectors/track, 1015 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 504 * 512 = 258048 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 ? 1543921 3808821 570754815+ 72 Unknown
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(357, 116, 40) logical=(1543920, 4, 5)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(357, 32, 45) logical=(3808820, 4, 35)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 ? 334702 4176028 968014120 65 Novell Netware 386
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(288, 115, 43) logical=(334701, 3, 51)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(367, 114, 50) logical=(4176027, 2, 42)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3 ? 3710083 7551409 968014096 79 Unknown
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(366, 32, 33) logical=(3710082, 2, 26)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(357, 32, 43) logical=(7551408, 0, 25)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda4 ? 1 7216720 1818613248 d Unknown
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(372, 97, 50) logical=(0, 0, 1)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(0, 10, 0) logical=(7216719, 2, 8)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Partition table entries are not in disk order
[root@localhost grisha]# cfdisk /dev/sda


Once again, I greatly appreciate your help.

It is common for USB pen (thumb, stick, etc) drives to have multiple partitions. After you backup your files from the USB pen drive in Windows or MAC, type "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1". This will erase the partition table and leave you a clean raw USB pen drive. Run cfdisk. cfdisk will complain that there is no partiton table found but read the message carfully. By hitting y or enter will get you into cfdisk. You can make a partition to what I said in my previous post. After you make a partition, you will have to remove the USB pen drive and remove any modules that was used for the USB pen drive. Then reinsert the USB pen drive. Next you can format the USB pen drive with any filesystem.

thanks! it works great now.