Hi,

I am using using a compaq m2201tu laptop and am using Redhat enterprise linux3.I m trying to mount a seagate hard disk that has 3 ntfs partitions and the system does not detect harddisk.When i browse it from the hardware browser it says myson inc. mass storage devce.In the details driver below it says unknown. If any one can solve my problem it would be great.

This may be more informative when i do
tail -s 2 -f /var/log/messages it gives me some messages like this


Jul 11 23:40:08 localhost kernel: Vendor: Model: R ev:
Jul 11 23:40:08 localhost kernel: Type: Direct-Access A NSI SCSI revision: 02
Jul 11 23:40:08 localhost kernel: Starting timer : 0 0
Jul 11 23:40:08 localhost kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
Jul 11 23:40:08 localhost kernel: inserting floppy driver for 2.4.21-4.EL
Jul 11 23:40:12 localhost kernel: floppy0: no floppy controllers found
Jul 11 23:40:12 localhost insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/block/ floppy.o: init_module: No such device
Jul 11 23:40:12 localhost insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find m ore information in syslog or the output from dmesg
Jul 11 23:40:12 localhost insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.21-4.EL/kernel/drivers/block/ floppy.o: insmod block-major-2 failed
Jul 11 23:40:14 localhost devlabel: devlabel service started/restarted

When i do dmesg i get messages like this at the end

hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.7-2, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x4cf/0x8818) is not claimed by any active driver.
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Starting timer : 0 0
Vendor: Model: Rev:
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Starting timer : 0 0
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
USB Mass Storage support registered.

Thanks in advance.

is that a custom kernel?

from what you posted it looks like you have 2 problems. One with your floppy drive and another with ur usb drive.

try "modprobe sd_mod"

Thanx for your reply, i did "modprobe sd_mod" but no output was dispalyed.After that i did dmesg which showed something like this. I am not worried about floppy drive bcz my system doesnt have one.

A the end if u can see the disk size it is assuming as 1gb where as the USB drive i have connected is 80gb.

Linux version 2.4.21-4.EL (bhcompile@daffy.perf.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2.3 2 0030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-20)) #1 Fri Oct 3 18:13:58 EDT 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000dc000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000004f6e0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000004f6e0000 - 000000004f6eb000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000004f6eb000 - 000000004f700000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000004f700000 - 0000000050000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0006000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000f0008000 - 00000000f000c000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fed00000 - 00000000fed00400 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fed20000 - 00000000fed90000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ff000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
374MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 325344
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 225280 pages.
zone(2): 95968 pages.
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ hdb=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdb=ide-scsi
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1596.129 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 3185.04 BogoMIPS
Memory: 1275392k/1301376k available (1524k kernel code, 21372k reserved, 1086k d ata, 164k init, 383872k highmem)
zapping low mappings.
Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: afe9fbff 00100000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: afe9fbff 00100000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz stepping 08
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Process timing init...done.
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd96e, last bus=6
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 00:1f.1
Transparent bridge - Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge
PCI: Discovered primary peer bus 01 [IRQ]
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/2641] at 00:1f.0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 06:09.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 06:09.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 06:09.4
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS not found.
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
Starting kswapd
allocated 32 pages and 32 bhs reserved for the highmem bounces
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
aio_setup: num_physpages = 81336
aio_setup: sizeof(struct page) = 56
Hugetlbfs mounted.
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SER IAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:1e.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 5 with 00:1e.2
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46
RAMDISK driver initialized: 256 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
hda: ST94019A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: HL-DT-STCD-RW/DVD DRIVE GCC-4244N, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
hda: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
hda: 78140160 sectors (40008 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4864/255/63
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 >
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP: routing cache hash table of 16384 buckets, 128Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 524288 bind 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 161k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 164k freed
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 18:21:59 Oct 3 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:1d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 3 with 00:1d.7
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.0 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1820, IRQ 3
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:1d.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 3 with 00:1f.3
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.1 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1840, IRQ 3
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 4 for device 00:1d.2
PCI: Sharing IRQ 4 with 00:1f.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 4 with 06:06.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.2 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1860, IRQ 4
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:1d.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 06:00.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.3 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1880, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 00:1d.7
PCI: Sharing IRQ 3 with 00:1d.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.7 to 64
ehci-hcd 00:1d.7: PCI device 8086:265c (Intel Corp.)
ehci-hcd 00:1d.7: irq 3, pci mem f8860000
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
ehci-hcd 00:1d.7: enabled 64bit PCI DMA
PCI: 00:1d.7 PCI cache line size set incorrectly (0 bytes) by BIOS/FW.
PCI: 00:1d.7 PCI cache line size corrected to 128.
ehci-hcd 00:1d.7: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-Jan-22
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 8 ports detected
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,5), internal journal
Adding Swap: 1534196k swap-space (priority -1)
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
hdb: attached ide-scsi driver.
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Starting timer : 0 0
Vendor: HL-DT-ST Model: RW/DVD GCC-4244N Rev: 1.01
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Starting timer : 0 0
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.11 <tigran@veritas.com>
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb.c: deregistering driver usb-storage
inserting floppy driver for 2.4.21-4.EL
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 06:00.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1d.3
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xf8988000, 00:c0:9f:ad:b8:0e, IRQ 10
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (8192 buckets, 65536 max) - 304 bytes per conntrack
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 06:00.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 10 with 00:1d.3
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xf89dc000, 00:c0:9f:ad:b8:0e, IRQ 10
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
eth0: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 45e1.
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 06:09.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 06:09.3
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 06:09.4
Yenta IRQ list 02c0, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000006
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.7-2, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x4cf/0x8818) is not claimed by any active driver .
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Starting timer : 0 0
Vendor: Model: Rev:
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Starting timer : 0 0
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
USB Mass Storage support registered.
inserting floppy driver for 2.4.21-4.EL
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
hub.c: USB device not accepting new address (error=-71)
usb-storage: host_reset() requested but not implemented
scsi: device set offline - command error recover failed: host 1 channel 0 id 0 l un 0
sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 7, driver = 00
sda : sense not available.
sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2
I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 4
I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 6
I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 2
I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 4
I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 6
unable to read partition table

it looks like your getting an awful lot of read errors, could you post the output of lsmod, if you have a spare cable laying around try that to.

This is the out put of lsmod. I hope there is no problem with the cable as it works well when booted through windows.

Module Size Used by Tainted: P
soundcore 6436 0 (autoclean)
lp 9028 0 (autoclean)
parport 37088 0 (autoclean) [lp]
autofs 13364 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ds 8704 1
yenta_socket 13760 1
pcmcia_core 57184 0 [ds yenta_socket]
8139too 18056 1
mii 3976 0 [8139too]
crc32 3712 0 [8139too]
ipt_REJECT 4632 1 (autoclean)
ipt_state 1080 2 (autoclean)
ip_conntrack 27304 1 (autoclean) [ipt_state]
iptable_filter 2412 1 (autoclean)
ip_tables 15776 3 [ipt_REJECT ipt_state iptable_filter]
sg 36940 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 18104 0 (autoclean)
microcode 4724 0 (autoclean)
ide-scsi 12208 0
ide-cd 35680 0
cdrom 33696 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
usb-storage 74624 0
scsi_mod 108968 4 [sg sr_mod ide-scsi usb-storage]
keybdev 2976 0 (unused)
mousedev 5524 1
hid 22212 0 (unused)
input 5888 0 [keybdev mousedev hid]
ehci-hcd 20104 0 (unused)
usb-uhci 26412 0 (unused)
usbcore 79392 1 [usb-storage hid ehci-hcd usb-uhci]
ext3 91592 2
jbd 52336 2 [ext3]