LinuxQuestions.org - sda mapping to sg is not working.

Hello,

I'm trying to get usb automount to work on KDE. I found a script at :

http://users.actrix.co.nz/michael/usbmount.html

This script uses hotplug to detect newly connected devices. It then mounts them and displays an icon on the desktop.

I did all the things that where written in the INSTALL file. All should have worked but when I checked the log and it didn't. This is what I get:

Jul 15 12:43:53 localhost kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 5
Jul 15 12:43:54 localhost kernel: scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Jul 15 12:43:54 localhost kernel: Vendor: KINGSTON Model: DATA TRAVELER Rev: 1.11
Jul 15 12:43:54 localhost kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Jul 15 12:43:54 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 251904 512-byte hdwr sectors (129 MB)
Jul 15 12:43:54 localhost kernel: sda: assuming Write Enabled
Jul 15 12:43:54 localhost kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Jul 15 12:43:55 localhost kernel: sda: sda1
Jul 15 12:43:55 localhost kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Jul 15 12:43:56 localhost scsi.agent[4310]: disk at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0/host2/2:0:0:0
Jul 15 12:44:00 localhost usb-mount: +++ Starting usb (u)mounter /proc/bus/usb/001/005 DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0 SCSI=
Jul 15 12:44:00 localhost usb-mount: ------
Jul 15 12:44:00 localhost usb-mount: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0
Jul 15 12:44:00 localhost usb-mount: REMOVER=/var/run/usb/%sys%devices%pci0000:00%0000:00:07.2%usb1%1-2%1-2:1.0
Jul 15 12:44:00 localhost usb-mount: PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
Jul 15 12:44:00 localhost usb-mount: ACTION=add
Jul 15 12:44:00 localhost usb-mount: PWD=/etc/hotplug
Jul 15 12:44:00 localhost usb-mount: HOME=/
Jul 15 12:44:00 localhost usb-mount: SHLVL=3
Jul 15 12:44:00 localhost usb-mount: DEVICE=/proc/bus/usb/001/005
Jul 15 12:44:00 localhost usb-mount: INTERFACE=8/6/80
Jul 15 12:44:00 localhost usb-mount: PRODUCT=4e8/100/1
Jul 15 12:44:00 localhost usb-mount: TYPE=0/0/0
Jul 15 12:44:00 localhost usb-mount: SEQNUM=312
Jul 15 12:44:00 localhost usb-mount: _=/bin/env
Jul 15 12:44:00 localhost usb-mount: ------
Jul 15 12:44:00 localhost usb-mount: Cleaning up mounts for detached devices.
Jul 15 12:44:01 localhost usb-mount: Called to mount device /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0
Jul 15 12:44:01 localhost usb-mount: DEVPATH yields SCSI host number 2
Jul 15 12:44:02 localhost usb-mount: SCSI disk device for 2 is UNKNOWN
Jul 15 12:44:02 localhost usb-mount: Disk device is UNKNOWN
Jul 15 12:44:02 localhost usb-mount: SCSI disk device is UNKNOWN
Jul 15 12:44:02 localhost usb-mount: Could not find device for /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0
Jul 15 12:44:02 localhost usb-mount: Checking for unused mountpoints

The script is called usb-mount. It all seems to work but then it says SCSI disk device for 2 is UNKNOWN. And then continues to get UNKNOWN stuff until it stops. I checked the script itself and there I found that it uses the command sg_map (from the sg3_utils http://www.torque.net/sg/u_index.html) to find out which sda is the actual usb device. Sg_map checks which scsi device is connected to which sg device. And this is where the trouble starts. When I run sg_map it says:

Stopping because no sg devices found
Strange, could not find device /dev/sda mapped to sg device??

Doing a search on google got me this page:

http://www.torque.net/sg/devfs_scsi.html

So, the guys there say that doing

cat /proc/scsi/scsi

will give you all the mounted scsi devices. In my case these are:

Attached devices:
Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: KINGSTON Model: DATA TRAVELER Rev: 1.11
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02

Next; doing cat /proc/scsi/sg/host_strs should give the same information but now from the sg driver point of view. This works with the guys from the given link, but in my case I get nothing...

So, I guess the question bubbles up to, why are the sg driver and the scsi drivers not linked, like they should be..? And how can I link them?

Any help would be great!

I'm using fedora core 2 with the 2.6.5-1.358 kernel.

One last question; I'm trying to get automount to work because I'm installing Linux for friends of mine who have difficulty using even Windows. My goal is to make Linux as easy as possible to them. Does anybody know any other way to get automount working? I've been searching the whole day know and the only solution I found is the script I'm trying to get running now.

Thanks in advance! All comments will be handy!

Greets,
Straboh