Re: USB Mass storage

USB Storage IS available by default.. but is typically NOT automounted.  
It's treated like scsi storage.  That's not to say that all USB storage 
is equal..  there MAY be some devices out there that simply don't 
comply, or that it may see incorrectly.  I have a USB ORB drive (2.0 GB 
removable IDE storage) that it recognizes just peachy.  If the mass 
storage device is something they plan to use frequently, it could be 
added to /etc/fstab, but this may throw errors on boot when the device 
is not connected.

Luke wrote:

> Ok, I dont know if this is compiled in the kernel or not. I assume it 
> is, but I have recieved a few reports of problems. Where the device 
> never automounts and is also not mountable manually.
>
> On report included the folling information from a dmesg screen.
>
> WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
> USB Mass Storage device found at 2
> USB Mass Storage support registered.
> hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-2, assigned address 5
> usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
> usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=5 (error=-110)
> hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-2, assigned address 6
> usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
> usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=6 (error=-110)
>
> Now I dont know if this is an issolated inccident or not. Im just 
> posting it here instead of in bug reports in case USB mass storage is 
> indeed not compiled into the kernel. In which case that would make 
> this a request for it to be.
>
> From what I see here, the device is timing out and refusing to be 
> assigned a useable address. So the device can never actually mount 
> successfully, becuase there is no hardware level communications. 
> Either the kernel or the device is at fault. So since the device 
> timesout it does not actually exsist to mount. I have tried explaing 
> this to people who request support, but they dont seem to understand 
> even if I take down to a scenario where the person is playing an game 
> and gets lagged out. :-D, I tried. I really dont know where to start 
> with this when someone ask for help on it. I would appreciate any 
> insight any of you might have in correcting such problems in the future.
>