SOYO Bay-One CF/SM card drive.

Crickit · 04-07-2003, 06:17 PM

I have a 3.5" mini-drive that came with my SOYO KT333 motherboard. It has a compact flash and a smart media memory slot and two usb slots in it. It works fine in Windows, but I can't figure out how to mount the CF and/or SM card readers. All I know is that it connects to the motherboard via a USB interface.

I've been searching for related posts, and most say to mount it using /dev/sda1, but that doesn't work. It just tells me:

mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist

I'm relatively new to linux and just starting to figure stuff out. I would really appreciate some help with this if anyone knows how to fix it. Thanks!

-Crickit

finegan · 04-07-2003, 07:11 PM

Check the report from:

dmesg

And look for mention of a the thing at all, it probably started a scsi device scan, but then flaked out because it didn't have device IDs for the drive. Just paste in the whole mess surrounding the can part.

Oh, also, what kernel and distro...

Cheers,

Finegan

rainchill · 04-08-2003, 01:10 AM

I have the exact same problem where win2k automatically detects and installs the smartmedia reader and linux doesn't seem to have a clue. I have mandrake 9.1.

Another thing, no Mandrake I have ever used has been able to turn off my computer since I got this MB. Again, win2k has no problem doing this.

Any help would be great.

finegan · 04-08-2003, 11:14 AM

You're looking for the same thing, Try the command "dmesg" and post back with whatever might look like:

Code:

hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-2, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x5e3/0x700) is not claimed by any active driver.
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 19:40:17 Mar 11 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
  Vendor: SIIG      Model: CompactFlash Car  Rev: 0113
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 15873 512-byte hdwr sectors (8 MB)
sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
 sda: sda1
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
USB Mass Storage support registered.

Cheers,

Finegan

rainchill · 04-08-2003, 01:05 PM

usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 15:32:56 Mar 14 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xdc00, IRQ 5
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xe000, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xe800, IRQ 12
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xec00, IRQ 12
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
ehci-hcd 00:0e.2: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0
ehci-hcd 00:0e.2: irq 12, pci mem e497d000
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
ehci-hcd 00:0e.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 0.95, driver 2002-Dec-20
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 4 ports detected
usbdevfs: remount parameter error
usb.c: registered new driver usblp
printer.c: v0.11: USB Printer Device Class driver
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
Adding Swap: 506008k swap-space (priority -1)
hub.c: connect-debounce failed, port 1 disabled
hub.c: new USB device 00:0e.2-3, assigned address 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 4 ports detected
hub.c: new USB device 00:11.2-2, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x46d/0xc00c) is not claimed by any active driver
.
hub.c: new USB device 00:0e.2-3.2, assigned address 3
printer.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 3 if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0
pid 0x2811
hub.c: new USB device 00:0e.0-1, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0xaec/0x5010) is not claimed by any active driver
.
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
input0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Mouse] on usb3:2.0
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
usb.c: registered new driver usb_mouse
usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
USB Mass Storage support registered.

I know that is alot, any help would be much appreciated. My USB hub is plugged into the sigma drive and it works fine. Again, the sigma drive connects to the MB through USB cables.

finegan · 04-08-2003, 02:40 PM

It registers the device, but there's no scsi emulation device scan, which is friggin bizarre...

Its also usb2.0, but looks like its registering with normal usb-uhci instead of usb-ehci.

What's listed under: /proc/scsi/scsi?

Cheers,

Finegan

rainchill · 04-08-2003, 04:08 PM

I have /proc/scsi/ide-scsi
/proc/scsi/usb-storage-0

I'm sorry I am such a linux newbie. I have been interested in it for a few years now. It just seems that there are always a few little things holding me back from total replacing win2k with it.
thankyou for your help.

finegan · 04-08-2003, 06:33 PM

Yeah, read that file, let's see what's in it:

more /proc/scsi/usb-storage-0

What's it say is there...

Cheers,

Finegan

Crickit · 04-08-2003, 09:30 PM

Sorry for the delayed reply. Here's some of what I found from dmesg. As you can see, the bottom lines look like exactly what I'm looking for. Any ideas?

usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 15:32:56 Mar 14 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xa000, IRQ 12
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xa400, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xc400, IRQ 5
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xc800, IRQ 5
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
ehci-hcd 00:0e.2: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0
ehci-hcd 00:0e.2: irq 5, pci mem e899c000
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
ehci-hcd 00:0e.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 0.95, driver 2002-Dec-20
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 4 ports detected
usbdevfs: remount parameter error
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide2(33,6), internal journal
Adding Swap: 522072k swap-space (priority -1)
hub.c: connect-debounce failed, port 1 disabled
hub.c: new USB device 00:11.2-1, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x46d/0xc001) is not claimed by any active driver.
hub.c: new USB device 00:0e.1-1, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0xaec/0x5010) is not claimed by any active driver.
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
input0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB Mouse] on usb3:2.0
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
usb.c: registered new driver usb_mouse
usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
USB Mass Storage support registered.

Crickit · 04-08-2003, 09:36 PM

I also have /proc/scsi/usb-storage-0

It's a directory with one file in it, called "0". The file is empty.

Any ideas?

carlywarly · 04-09-2003, 01:35 AM

Try cdrecord -scanbus as root in a console. You may get something like this -
Cdrecord 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'JLMS ' 'DVD-ROM LTD-166S' 'DS0B' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) 'LITE-ON ' 'LTR-48125W ' 'VS08' Removable CD-ROM
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
scsibus1:
1,0,0 100) 'TwinMOS ' 'MOBILE DISK ' '1.11' Removable Disk
1,1,0 101) *
1,2,0 102) *
1,3,0 103) *
1,4,0 104) *
1,5,0 105) *
1,6,0 106) *
1,7,0 107) *

You can then make a symbolic link to 1,0,0 on the scsi bus to mount your reader - hopefully.

Crickit · 04-09-2003, 06:16 PM

The following is my cdrecord -scanbus output. It seems there is only scsibus1, no scsibus0, though I'm not sure what that means. Anyway, the USB storage device is not listed there, only my cd-burner.

Cdrecord 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
scsibus1:
1,0,0 100) 'Memorex ' '48MAXX 1248AJ ' 'VWS4' Removable CD-ROM
1,1,0 101) *
1,2,0 102) *
1,3,0 103) *
1,4,0 104) *
1,5,0 105) *
1,6,0 106) *
1,7,0 107) *

I also noticed and interesting thing today. In the KDE control center, under "Information > USB Devices", the USB storage device is listed with some nice details. I admit I was unable to make much of it, but maybe someone else will. Here are two screenshots:

http://www.iocode.net/temp/usb-devices-screen1.jpg
http://www.iocode.net/temp/usb-devices-screen2.jpg

finegan · 04-09-2003, 07:13 PM

Nah, that's what I thought, if it were properly identified, it would have a class listing and a type, if I remember right thats: 8 and storage, respectively.

It looks like the kernel just doesn't support the device yet.

You might want to check the usb-storage mailing list at sourceforge, which is the next logical bet, usually this is just a matter of getting device ID numbers added and that's all, so you may be able to help the developers add another device to the pile quite easily.

Cheers,

Finegan

Crickit · 04-10-2003, 03:15 PM

Thanks for the tips. One last question regarding your last reply: how do I join the usb-devices mailing list? I was unable to find it at the sourceforge site.

finegan · 04-10-2003, 03:21 PM

Usually its the name of the list, the subject subscribe and a blank body, the names of most of the lists are at the bottom of this site:

http://www2.one-eyed-alien.net/~mdharm/linux-usb/

I would have direct linked yeatserday, but SF's search feature was hosed... again!

Kinda like they are right friggin' now... heck, if you can't get subscribed, post back and I'll try trackin it down the hard way.

Cheers,

Finegan