Why my USB (Handy) Drive is not working?

[askme]

I have 128MB Kingston USB drive, when I plug into my Knoppix booted P4 Dell, Machine, Knoppix does not recognise it. I also did dmesg in Konsole (Terminal) Window as I read in "Docs" Link of this site. Please let me know what is the problem?

[transistordude]

Did you do a mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/sda1, where sda1 is a directory you created?

For debugging USB devices, you can run a utility called usbview. It requires that you add the following line in /etc/fstab:
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0

Frank

[drmarathe]

I have a new USB 128 MB Transcend stick (formatted on 98SE) andif I try to mount it withmount a -t msdos /dev/sda (or sda1) /mnt/flash it ges an error "/dev/sda not a valid block drive" . I am using 2.4 kernal (latest download). Please help.

Thanks

Marathe

[De Vince]

Witch Kernel are you using, because
Kernel 2.4.27 recognise it and
Kernel 2.6.7 recognise the USB stick not.

Sorry, I see you are using 2.4

[drmarathe]

Thannks De Vince but /dev/sda doiesn't seem to work. Gives me an error /dev/sda or /dev/sdb is not a block device"

I have a Jetflash 128 MB brand new Stick for USB 2.0 and it is working fine on Windows. Also /utilitis/tools/usb view recognises it as

Flash Disk
Manufacturer: USB
Serial No. 61100740FC7A4D7D
Speed: 12 MB/s
USB Version : 2.00
Device Class: 00(>ifc)
Device Subclass: 00
Device Protocol: 00
Max Default Endpoint size: 64
Number of Configurations: 1
Vendor Id: 0ea0
Product ID: 2166
Revision No. 2.00

So I think it is being recognised ok.

The question seems to be what /dev/xxx entry corresponds to this Flash Rom. I am logging in as Root shell so I don't think it is an issue of permissions.

I need the correct value of this XXX. Any ideas.

I have sequentially tried scd0, sr0, sda, sdb, sg0. The last 3 give the same messgae "not a block device" The first two point to the CD !!!

Thanks

[OErjan]

the comand

dmesg|grep *

(where * is replaced with sd, scsi or sg) might answer your question.

here is what it looks like for me.

dmesg|grep scsi
i2o_scsi.c: Version 0.1.2
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 62x/62x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 5

atleast when i atach my USB2 DVDwriter, should look something alike for you.
the writer is sr0 as you can se above.
also

 fdisk -l

will list the partitions available for you.

[ICPUG]

I have a Transcend Jetflash2 128MB device.

It was recognised, straight out of the box by Knoppix 3.4, running either Kernel 2.4 or Kernel 2.6. I did not have to give any conmmands at all. It just worked.

I use it to transfer files from a Windows NT machine (which does not recognise USB) to a Windows 98 (First Edition) machine (which is unreliable!).

I was really pleased when Knoppix recognised it without me having to do anything!

Note: the Jetflash is formatted as FAT16 out of the box. Not sure if formatting it with Windows 98SE might be changing this and causing problems.

[drmarathe]

This is my whole dmesg file. Looks like it detects the Flash ok but says that 'possible problems. It may be due to the failure of my PCI Bus. I am going to try using acpi=off option. Thanks for the hint about dmesg
"
xmodule=fbdev initrd=minirt24.gz nomce quiet BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix BOOT_IMAGE=linux24
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1095.525 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 2182.34 BogoMIPS
Memory: 239092k/245696k available (1371k kernel code, 6216k reserved, 561k data, 140k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 0a
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 731.19 usecs.
SMP motherboard not detected.
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 1095.5598 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 99.5963 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 995963, slice: 497981
CPU0<T0:995952,T1:497968,D:3,S:497981,C:995963>
Waiting on wait_init_idle (map = 0x0)
All processors have done init_idle
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfe34a, last bus=5
PCI: Using configuration type 1
ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Level Trigger.
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S3 S4bios S4 S5)
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT]
ACPI: Power Resource [PFAN] (off)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:04.0 - using IRQ 255
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacpi' or even 'acpi=off'
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xfc000000, mapped to 0xcf813000, size 3072k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=9
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:77f8
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 100000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ALI15X3: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:04.0
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:04.0 - using IRQ 255
ALI15X3: chipset revision 195
ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xeff0-0xeff7, BIOS settings: hdaio, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xeff8-0xefff, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddio
hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R2102, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ide: late registration of driver.
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 781k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
hdc: attached ide-scsi driver.
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: DVD-ROM SD-R2102 Rev: 1315
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
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
NCR53c406a: no available ports found
aec671x_detect:
scsi: <fdomain> Detection failed (no card)
GDT: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 2.05
GDT: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
megaraid: v1.18k (Release Date: Thu Aug 28 10:05:11 EDT 2003)
megaraid: no BIOS enabled.
DC390: 0 adapters found
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
Highpoint HPT370 Softwareraid driver for linux version 0.02
megaraid: v1.18k (Release Date: Thu Aug 28 10:05:11 EDT 2003)
megaraid: no BIOS enabled.
Promise Fasttrak(tm) Softwareraid driver 0.03beta: No raid array found
driver for Silicon Image(tm) Medley(tm) hardware version 0.0.1: No raid array found
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 19:48:59 Apr 17 2004
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xcfb3b000, IRQ 11
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.0, ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-2, assigned address 2
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: JetFlash Model: TS128MJF2L Rev: 2.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
Partition check:
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
cloop: Initializing cloop v2.01
cloop: loaded (max 8 devices)
cloop: /cdrom/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX: 29715 blocks, 65536 bytes/block, largest block is 65552 bytes.
ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
ACPI: AC Adapter [ADP1] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Fan [FAN] (off)
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1 C2)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (58 C)
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
PCI: Enabling device 00:11.0 (0000 -> 0002)
PCI: Enabling device 00:11.1 (0000 -> 0002)
Yenta ISA IRQ mask 0x04b8, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000007
Yenta ISA IRQ mask 0x04b8, PCI irq 11
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 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x3f0-0x3ff 0x408-0x40f 0x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 19:48:59 Apr 17 2004
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usbdevfs: remount parameter error
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-0 with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x77 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver - version 2.3.38-k1
Copyright (c) 2004 Intel Corporation

e100: selftest OK.
Trident 4DWave/SiS 7018/ALi 5451,Tvia CyberPro 5050 PCI Audio, version 0.14.10h, 19:48:07 Apr 17 2004
e100: eth0: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Connection
Hardware receive checksums enabled
cpu cycle saver enabled

PCI: Enabling device 00:06.0 (0000 -> 0003)
trident: ALi Audio Accelerator found at IO 0x1000, IRQ 11
ac97_codec: AC97 codec, id: (Unknown)
gameport0: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device at pci00:06.0 speed 1355 kHz
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 189M
agpgart: Detected Ali M1644 chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf0000000
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb-storage: host_reset() requested but not implemented
scsi: device set offline - command error recover failed: host 2 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
SCSI disk error : host 2 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 return code = 6050000
I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 0
I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 2
Vesafb does not support changing the video mode
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
floppy0: data CRC error: track 24, head 0, sector 16, size 2
floppy0: data CRC error: track 24, head 0, sector 16, size 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 879
floppy0: data CRC error: track 25, head 0, sector 16, size 2
floppy0: data CRC error: track 25, head 0, sector 16, size 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 915
floppy0: data CRC error: track 24, head 0, sector 16, size 2
floppy0: data CRC error: track 24, head 0, sector 16, size 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 879
floppy0: data CRC error: track 24, head 0, sector 16, size 2
floppy0: data CRC error: track 24, head 0, sector 16, size 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 879
floppy0: data CRC error: track 21, head 1, sector 9, size 2
floppy0: data CRC error: track 21, head 1, sector 9, size 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 782
floppy0: data CRC error: track 21, head 1, sector 9, size 2
floppy0: data CRC error: track 21, head 1, sector 9, size 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 782
floppy0: data CRC error: track 21, head 1, sector 9, size 2
floppy0: data CRC error: track 21, head 1, sector 9, size 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 782
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:02.0-2 address 2
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
PPP BSD Compression module registered
PPP Deflate Compression module registered
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-1, assigned address 3
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 3
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:02.0-1 address 3
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-2, assigned address 4
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 4
floppy0: data CRC error: track 23, head 0, sector 16, size 2
floppy0: data CRC error: track 23, head 0, sector 16, size 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 843
floppy0: data CRC error: track 23, head 0, sector 16, size 2
floppy0: data CRC error: track 23, head 0, sector 16, size 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 843
floppy0: data CRC error: track 23, head 0, sector 16, size 2
floppy0: data CRC error: track 23, head 0, sector 16, size 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 843
floppy0: data CRC error: track 1, head 0, sector 14, size 2
floppy0: data CRC error: track 1, head 0, sector 14, size 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 49
floppy0: data CRC error: track 1, head 0, sector 14, size 2
floppy0: data CRC error: track 1, head 0, sector 14, size 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 49
floppy0: data CRC error: track 1, head 0, sector 14, size 2
floppy0: data CRC error: track 1, head 0, sector 14, size 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 49
floppy0: data CRC error: track 1, head 0, sector 14, size 2
floppy0: data CRC error: track 1, head 0, sector 14, size 2
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 49
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:02.0-2 address 4
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-1, assigned address 5
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 5
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:02.0-1 address 5
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-1, assigned address 6
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 6
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:02.0-1 address 6
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-2, assigned address 7
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 7
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:02.0-2 address 7
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-1, assigned address 8
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 8
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:02.0-1 address 8
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-1, assigned address 9
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 9
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:02.0-1 address 9
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-2, assigned address 10
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 10
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:02.0-2 address 10
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-2, assigned address 11
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 11
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:02.0-2 address 11
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-1, assigned address 12
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 12
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:02.0-1 address 12
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-2, assigned address 13
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 13
usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:02.0-2 address 13
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-2, assigned address 14
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 14
"

[drmarathe]

I have managed to mount the USB Stick in the experimental Kernal Linux26. I had to RecoverDisk by the JetFlash utility and then format is as Fat32 under Windows. Then only it is mountable as 'mount -a -t msdos /dev/sda /mnt/usb'.

Now the problem is that this can be doneonly as a root. But the Knoppix user KDE doesn't allow me to open the folder /mnt/usb !!! I tried changing modes a+rwx of /mnt/usb, still that doesn't work. And it doesn't allow me to mount it as Knoppix user !

The solution seems to be to have the KDE desktop environment as a 'root'. How to do it?

Secondly the combination of linux26 /knoppix26 and fb1024x768 doesn't work !

Will appreciate anyone's help. Want to thank the earlier 'helpes' for their help.

Regards,

Dr. Marathe

[champagnemojo]

If you formatted it as Fat32 shouldn't the format type be vfat? The best way to make the user able to mount it is to edit your fstab. Create an entry for your usb drive and put 'users' in the options like below.

/dev/sda /mnt/usb vfat noauto, users, exec 0 0

If you want it to mount everytime you boot up you can change noauto to auto.