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USB card reader and mp3 player no longer work when plugged in

Asked by martin in Linux

Tags: mandrake, mk4004gah, mp3, player, reader


Some time ago I installed Mandrake 2006.0 on my machine and was pleasantly surprised to find that my USB storage devices worked out of the box: just plug in a device (such as an iRiver mp3 player) and it is detected and mounted on a newly-created mount point /mnt/IHP100 (for example) and I can start using it straight away.

I recently upgraded some modules via MandrivaUpdate (security/bugfix update) and this has stopped working: when I plug in a device I get a line in /var/log/messages:

Apr 7 15:11:23 pingu4 kernel: usb 5-8: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5

I found an old version udev-054-6mdk.i586.rpm on the server and installed it with --upgrade --oldpackage and also installed hotplug-2004_09_23-22mdk.

Now if I run "modprobe usb-storage" as root and plug in the flash card reader or iRiver, I get more messages:

Apr 10 15:42:42 pingu4 kernel: scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Apr 10 15:42:47 pingu4 kernel: Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: MK4004GAH Rev: JC00
Apr 10 15:42:47 pingu4 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Apr 10 15:42:47 pingu4 kernel: SCSI device sdc: 78126048 512-byte hdwr sectors (40001 MB)
Apr 10 15:42:47 pingu4 kernel: sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
Apr 10 15:42:47 pingu4 kernel: SCSI device sdc: 78126048 512-byte hdwr sectors (40001 MB)
Apr 10 15:42:47 pingu4 kernel: sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
Apr 10 15:42:48 pingu4 kernel: /dev/scsi/host6/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Apr 10 15:42:48 pingu4 kernel: Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi6, channel 0, id 0, lun 0

I can manually mount the device via: "mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/cf" for example, so I have a workaround, but I would like to get it working automatically, the way it used to.


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