[ale] USB Pendrive on RH 8.0

[Robert L. Harris]

Try to put a filesystem on /dev/sda1 instead of sda...

Thus spake Pete Hardie (pete.hardie at sciatl.com):

> Ok, partial success.
> 
> I am able to mount the pendrive as an ext2 system via
> mount -t ext2 /dev/sda /mnt/usb
> 
> and this was made possible by having the drive plugged in and doing:
> mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sda
> 
> However, it is flaky - this morning I was unable to mount the drive.  lsusb 
> shows the device, but not all of the params, like so:
> Bus 001 Device 007: ID 0ea0:6803
>   Language IDs: none (cannot get min. string descriptor; got len=-1, 
> error=110:Connection timed out)
> Device Descriptor:
>   bLength                18
>   bDescriptorType         1
>   bcdUSB               1.10
>   bDeviceClass            0 Interface
>   bDeviceSubClass         0
>   bDeviceProtocol         0
>   bMaxPacketSize0        64
>   idVendor           0x0ea0
>   idProduct          0x6803
>   bcdDevice            1.00
>   iManufacturer           1
>   iProduct                2
>   iSerial                 3
>   bNumConfigurations      1
> cannot get config descriptor 0, Connection timed out (110)
>   Language IDs: none (cannot get min. string descriptor; got len=-1, 
> error=110:Connection timed out)
> 
> Other times I see much more data for the pendrive.  The USB hub shows up 
> consistently with its data.
> 
> 
> Also, the main reason I wanted this was to transfer files to/from the 
> wife's Windoze box (ftp has been giving me trouble, and heck, security 
> through turning it off works for me), and I was unable to get a vfat 
> filesystem on the pendrive, although I'm probably not doing it right.  
> /var/log/messages entries that appear to relate to this are:
> Apr 15 00:07:15 nyet kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, 
> channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> Apr 15 00:07:15 nyet kernel: SCSI device sda: 64512 512-byte hdwr sectors 
> (33 MB)
> Apr 15 00:07:15 nyet kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
> Apr 15 00:07:15 nyet kernel:  sda: unknown partition table
> Apr 15 00:07:31 nyet kernel: FAT: bogus logical sector size 65535
> Apr 15 00:07:31 nyet kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 
> 08:00.
> Apr 15 00:16:04 nyet kernel: FAT: bogus logical sector size 65535
> Apr 15 00:16:04 nyet kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 
> 08:00.
> Apr 15 00:16:08 nyet kernel: VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev sd(8,0).
> Apr 15 00:16:12 nyet kernel: VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sd(8,0).
> Apr 15 00:16:28 nyet kernel: FAT: bogus logical sector size 65535
> Apr 15 00:16:28 nyet kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 
> 08:00.
> Apr 15 00:16:28 nyet kernel: UMSDOS: msdos_read_super failed, mount aborted.
> Apr 15 00:17:02 nyet kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 2
> 
> 
> 
> 
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