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USB drive works on DSL, not DSL-N. DSL-N has kernel 2.6.12

So, I plug in my USB drive, check dmesg, and get this:

Code:

usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3

Yummy! Right? Wrong. I can't mount it.

I try fdisk -l, and only see my hda1.

I ls /dev/sd* and none are lit up as available. (Colored ls)

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 gives me:

Code:

mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device

What's up with this? It worked fine in DSL, which was on the 2.4 kernel.

Solution

For my situation, DMESG was posting that the USB was inserted, but nothing about loading it as a drive.

I found a post that suggested this:

Code:

sudo modprobe usb_storage

After that DMESG posted:

Code:

usb-storage: device found at 2

...

SCSI device sda: ...

sda:...

 sda: sda1

Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0

I was then able to mount the drive.

To keep this permanent, I created a file called local in /etc/init.d/

Code:

#!/bin/bash

modprobe usb_storage

I set it to executable:

Code:

chmod +x local

and now I can mount any time I need to.

I hope this helps somebody else.