Hi folks

There seems to be many threads about hotplung and suse10.x, but my problem doesn't seem to be answered by other threads.

I have a USB/IDE thingamy and in my old suse 9.0 it was mountable as /dev/sda1 when hotplugged. Under suse 10.1 it isn't and I can't tell what it is.

tail -f /var/log/messages gives:
Jul 13 16:55:34 linux syslog-ng[5794]: SIGHUP received, restarting syslog-ng
Jul 13 16:55:36 linux syslog-ng[5794]: new configuration initialized
Jul 13 17:00:48 linux kernel: psmouse.c: Mouse at isa0060/serio3/input0 lost synchronization, throwing 2 bytes away.
Jul 13 17:00:48 linux kernel: klogd 1.4.1, ---------- state change ----------
Jul 13 17:02:35 linux kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 10
Jul 13 17:02:36 linux kernel: usb 1-1: new device found, idVendor=04ce, idProduct=0002
Jul 13 17:02:36 linux kernel: usb 1-1: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=1, SerialNumber=0
Jul 13 17:02:36 linux kernel: usb 1-1: Product: ScanLogic USBIDE
Jul 13 17:02:36 linux kernel: usb 1-1: Manufacturer: ScanLogic USBIDE
Jul 13 17:02:36 linux kernel: usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

After doing "modprobe usb-storage" lsmod |grep usb gives:
usb_storage 79296 0
scsi_mod 133256 4 usb_storage,sg,sd_mod,sr_mod
usbcore 124164 3 usb_storage,ohci_hcd
ide_core 129084 4 usb_storage,ide_cd,alim15x3,ide_disk

I'd much appreciate some help here. Thanks.

Step 1.
Plug in usb storage device.
Step 2.
Click the "My Computer" icon.
Step 3.
Click the icon for the appropriate device.

Alternate method.
Step 1.
Plug in usb storage device.
Step 2.
Check in the /media folder where suse has been mounting things for the past 6 years...

Thanks for that slightly condescending reply. Nothing appears in /media and I'm not running KDE but XFCE4.

Any other hints?

Ah, well. File structure didn't change. Should still have been sda1. If you cant get a desktop running with automount to see if it's good, have you tried it on another computer to see if the file system is corrupted?

I'm still dual booting suse9.0 and it works fine on that. I've also tried it on my wife's laptop running winblows and that works, too.

I did a reinstall of 10.1 last night with KDE and all the whistles and and bells rather than the minimal system I had, but still the same.

When I plug the device in I don't get the usb mass storage device modules automatically loaded - I have to modprobe. What's going on?

I should point out that my firewire CDROM hoplugs fine and automatically mounts as /media/sr0 (hmmm... scd0 in suse90).

I hope someone has some bright ideas.

The answer to Some of your problems are in an another
thread on the Forums look herehttp://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=390008. One of the things that helps with media is a feature
part of newest KDE. The latest version 3.5.3 has an automount function with application settings for each type of media. For example USB media can be opened with a player or just explored. KDE has other features that are shades of Windows that bring better operation for all linux desktops. So in closing update KDE from OpenSuSE repository and media problem should be solved along with you will have some advanced desktop features.

I use suse 10.1 and I don't have this problem. When I plug in my usb hard disk, after 10 seconds I can see the device icon in kde and mount it from there.

NO, NO, NO! My problem is not answered by that thread beacause I don't have an automount problem. Automounting is not even an issue because the device isn't even visible in /dev (as far as I can tell).

Is this problem Kernel/udev or a SuSE udev scripts/bootscripts problem?

When I plug in the device I get a new directory in /sys, namely /sys/bus/usb/devices/usb1/1-1 in which the are several directories, at least one of which has a modalias. If I knew the major and minor numbers of the device I could add a static node to lib/udev/devices, but I don't know how to find out those numbers.

When the device is plugged in, the usb-storage module is NOT automatically loaded. How can this be?

Can someone please help me, I don't want to go back to my obsolete suse9.0 and I don't want to ditch SuSE.