Re: usb storage devices

From: T. Horsnell (tsh) (tsh_at_mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk)
Date: 02/11/05

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    To: Dale Raby <daleraby@gmail.com>, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:18:55 +0000 (GMT)

    If you watch /var/log/messages, (tail -f /var/log/messages as root)
    do you see the system detect it when you plug in your USB device?
    And there should also be a line added to /etc/fstab after
    the device is inserted. Does this happen?

    Cheers,
    Terry.

    >Hello,
    >
    >Yes, I have tried rebooting repeatedly, but neither device is
    >recognized by FC3 after downloading the updates. I gather that others
    >are having similar problems, though there seems to be a workaround
    >that looks like voodoo to me. As much as I would like to contribute,
    >this is beyond me, so I will have to wait for those of you with more
    >brains than I have to find and repair the problem. Hopefully, I won't
    >need any backups for a while.
    >
    >
    >On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 08:02:32 +0000, Rob Kirkbride
    ><rob.kirkbride@thales-is.com> wrote:
    >> Dale Raby wrote on 02/02/2005 01:15:
    >>
    >> >I am running Fedora Core 3.
    >> >
    >> >Recently I ran Yum Update and now find that my USB storage devices (a
    >> >Kingston "pen" drive" and an Iomega Zip 250 drive) are no longer
    >> >detected by the system. I had this problem once before, and solved it
    >> >by re-installing with the original disks and not updating. I suppose
    >> >I could do the same thing again, but surely there must be a better
    >> >solution that avoiding updates!
    >> >
    >> >Both devices worked fine previous to the updates, and they still work
    >> >on the same hardware using Knoppix.
    >> >
    >> >
    >>
    >> Have you done a reboot following the updates?. I noticed when the
    >> haldaemon was updated that a reboot was needed on one of my machines. If
    >> you don't want to do a reboot you could do a /etc/rc.d/init.d/haldaemon
    >> restart and see if that sorts things first.
    >>
    >>
    >> Rob
    >>
    >>
    >
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