I have a jump drive and an external hard drive of which neither can be accessed, this is the output of dmesg:

usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
SCSI subsystem initialized
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb-storage: device found at 3
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: LEXAR Model: JUMPDRIVE PRO Rev: 2000
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
usb-storage: device scan complete

I get the same message with the hard drive just a different address 4,5,6 whatever order it gets plugged in at and vendor and modle are different also

any ideas????


Thanks

Erick

Have you mounted the drives before trying to access them?
Did you mount them as root or as a normal user?

I don't know what to try to mount ??? From what I have read it should be identified as sd? ... but I don't see that so what should I try mounting it as??
also thanks for the reply ...

Erick

first make sure you have a directory to mount to. You could do:

$ su -
# mkdir /media/USBdrive

and then try:

# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/USBdevice

you could also have a look at this thread

thanks .......... when I try to mount it manually I get this message:

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


anyway ... I'm reading up on udev right after this ... thanks for the link ...

Erick

try sda, sdb, sdb1,...

Thanks linmix for your help ... I tried all of these with the same "not a device" error so tonight I made another kernel still didn't work so I tried a default kernel and bingo it worked ... since this is a laptop I didn't compile any scsi support into my kernel .... now I see that it is needed even if there are no scsi devices ... so I re-compiled my kernel added scsi support and all is well in suse land again ....

once again thanks for your replies ....

Erick