I want my Flash (USB) Drive to work!
 

First let me begin by saying I did a search tried the suggestions in the post Ive found BUT NO GOOD :confused: !

I have been trying to find out why I cannot get my Mini USB Flash Drive to work under Linux. I have the 256mb Cruzer from sandisk, and it works great under Mac OSX and XP Pro. I read on another forum that it worked flawlessly on another Distro but I cant seem to get it working in SuSE 8.2 pro.

Being the newbie I am Im still trying to get a grip on the OS. So Im trying to figure out a couple of things.

1. How do I see the Drives under Linux (hard,Disk,etc)? Like a disk admin of some sort. I figured if I can see this I would be able to see if the drive is listed.

2. How do I know if USB 2.0 is working. I know my USB is working as I have a scanner hooked up
to the ports on the back of the PC. Where Im trying the USB drive is via the front USB 2.0 ports.

Finally here is a post from someone who used the drive in question. I tried following the steps but again I could not locate the drive. And only can do part of his solution.

he found...

"as root"

/dev/sda1
as a scsi usb device.

Next he created a dir in /mnt/
mkdir /mnt/cruzer

I did this ^^^^^^^^^^^^

He then mounted the device with
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/cruzer

after that he was able to add, modify,delete files on the device.

He then set it up in ./etc/fstab

Hopefully someone here can assist, I really would like to have the drive working.

here
and ...
here

you never mentioned if you did a couple of them steps, like loading the modules (if necessary) so see if these links help..

Thanks but still nothing
 

I tried agian it seems like it just wont connect!

Here is a copy of dmesg

Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
hub.c: new USB device 02:04.2-3, assigned address 2
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: Generic Model: STORAGE DEVICE Rev: 1.25
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 512000 512-byte hdwr sectors (262 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: sda1
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 02:04.2-3 address 2
hub.c: new USB device 02:04.2-3, assigned address 3
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 3
usb-storage: host_reset() requested but not implemented
scsi: device set offline - command error recover failed: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 6050000
I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 0
I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 64
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 02:04.2-3 address 3
hub.c: new USB device 02:04.2-3, assigned address 4
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 4

Although I dont know what this means maybe someonw here can see something Im not.

Hi NauticX,

I had the very same problem trying to mount an usb-device (similar output with dmesg). Any try to mount the device using mount [opt] /dev/sda1 ./mnt provided the error /dev/sda1 is not a valid block-device.
After loading usb-storage with modprobe usb-storage mounting of the usb-device was no longer a problem.
Hope that this helps you with the problem.

Best regards, Chris

Moving to Linux - Hardware

Cool

Funny u say u couldn't get it to work from the first time!

I made it from the first try and saw only one post 'cause didn't knew what I should use for the emulation and mounting.

Maybe I was used to it because of the RW I installed just before the mass storage device.

And did it just for fun!!! didn't' need the data on it.

Hi there,
I just bought a cruzer mini 256 flash drive few days ago and I can't have it working in Linux (I'm using SuSE pro 8.2). I've read several of the post in this forum and googled for quit a long time, but I have been able to solve the problem. I would really appreciate any help.

Here is the info I've got:

#dmesg
...
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: DVD-ROM SD-R2412 Rev: 1330
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
PCI: Enabling device 00:06.0 (0000 -> 0003)
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xe0987f00, 00:08:0d:cd:85:c4, IRQ 11
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
eth0: Setting 100mbps half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 40a1.
raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
PCI: Enabling device 00:0c.2 (0000 -> 0002)
ehci-hcd 00:0c.2: NEC Corporation USB 2.0
ehci-hcd 00:0c.2: irq 11, pci mem e0989000
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci-hcd 00:0c.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-Jan-22
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 5 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 08:26:33 Jun 18 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe098b000, IRQ 11
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:0c.0, NEC Corporation USB
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 3 ports detected
PCI: Enabling device 00:0c.1 (0000 -> 0002)
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe098d000, IRQ 11
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:0c.1, NEC Corporation USB (#2)
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
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
BlueZ Core ver 2.2 Copyright (C) 2000,2001 Qualcomm Inc
Written 2000,2001 by Maxim Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
BlueZ L2CAP ver 2.1 Copyright (C) 2000,2001 Qualcomm Inc
Written 2000,2001 by Maxim Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
PCI: Enabling device 00:11.0 (0000 -> 0002)
Yenta IRQ list 04b8, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000007
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0820-0x08ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0800-0x080f: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x03e0-0x04ff: excluding 0x408-0x40f 0x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x03af: excluding 0x1e0-0x1e7 0x200-0x207 0x220-0x22f 0x330-0x337 0x388-0x38f
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
IPv6 v0.8 for NET4.0
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
Got silent jpeg.
Got silent jpeg.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
usb.c: registered new driver serial
usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic
usbserial.c: USB Serial Driver core v1.4
Linux video capture interface: v1.00
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.
hub.c: new USB device 00:0c.2-1, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x781/0x8185) 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
Vendor: Generic Model: STORAGE DEVICE Rev: 1.25
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 512000 512-byte hdwr sectors (262 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: sda1
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
USB Mass Storage support registered.

I got this when I just insert the flash drive and it beeps. After a couple of seconds or so, it beeps again and I get this:

#dmesg
...
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:0c.2-1 address 2
hub.c: new USB device 00:0c.2-1, assigned address 3
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 3
usb-storage: host_reset() requested but not implemented
scsi: device set offline - command error recover failed: host 1 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
SCSI disk error : host 1 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 6050000
I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0

I tried typing modprobe usb-storage before with the same result. I also created the mount point and ad a line to my fstab file, so it looks like this:

linux:~ # cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hda3 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/hda2 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb ext3,vfat defaults,noauto,users 0 0

I also uncommented the line

alias usb-interface usb-ohci

in the file /etc/modules.conf

I'm getting desperated, please help me...

N. B. sorry about the length, but I didn't want to leave info off.

I just bought a cruzer mini 256 flash drive today and it saw it when I plugged it in but when I tried to mount it, the system completely locked up... I can't seem to find out why