I got a flash 256 MB drive and I was trying to mount it to my new installed Mandrake 10 with kernel 2.6.3. It didn't wokr The system sees it as unknown device and I can't use it at all.

After typing 'tail -f /var/log/messages' in my console following informations appeared:

# kernel: usb 4-4: new high speed USB device using address 3
# kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
# kernel: Vendor: Generic Model: USB Flash Disk Rev: 2.00
# kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
# kernel: sda: Unit Not Ready, sense:
# kernel: Current : sense key Unit Attention
# kernel: Additional sense: Not ready to ready change, medium may have changed
# kernel: sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
# kernel: sda : status=1, message=00, host=0, driver=08
# kernel: Current sd: sense key Unit Attention
# kernel: Additional sense: Not ready to ready change, medium may have changed
# kernel: sda: assuming Write Enabled
# kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
# modprobe: FATAL: Module scsimon not found.
# scsi.agent[7112]: Timeout on find type for device /sys//devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb4/4-4/4-4:1.0/host1/1:0:0:0

Where could be the problem? Can you help, please?

Hi
What error message are you getting when you try to mount it, and did you make a new line in fstab for it ?

My fstab file looks:

/dev/hda6 / ext3 noatime 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-2,codepage=852,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-2,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /mnt/removable auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-2,kudzu,codepage=852,noauto,exec 0 0

I'm sure there's something missing there in make my flash drive working but I don't know what

Hi
You have to bear in mind that fstab is a file which requires configuration, generally it is only self configuring at installation time. Try the following steps and if you have problems post back the output of 'lsmod' and relevant parts of 'dmesg'

First of all do a 'lsmod' to check you have the usb-storage module. If you don't have it (im pretty sure you do) load it with 'insmod usb-storage.'

Now insert the memory stick and check the output of dmesg to see where the kernel has allocated a call to the device. In my case this is /dev/sda1.

Finally create a mount directory (I use /mnt/usb) and add a line to fstab. You might prefer to specify your file type and not use defaults . . .

Try to mount using 'mount /mnt/usb'

The output on my 'lsmod' you may see on the web page http://e-penkala.net/usb.htm
... but I can't recognize any usb-storage module

I can't load it!

[root@home maro]# insmod usb-storage
insmod: can't read 'usb-storage': No such file or directory
[root@home maro]#