USB-Stick: /dev/sda1 wont be created

freez · n00b Joined: 04 Sep 2002 Posts: 37 Location: austria

hi there!

im trying to get my usb-stick working on my (old) gentoo box.
everything seems to work perfectly, expect, that i cant mount it, since /dev/sda1 doesnt exist.
dmesg, /sys/...path/to/the/stick/, /proc/bus/usb/devices show me, the usb-stick is recogniced correctly.

im useing:
linux-2.6.6-mm2
hotplug-20040401
and my usbstick works fine on other pcs w/ linux installed

if you can help, post, please,
freez
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R!tman · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 3:18 pm Post subject:

Do you have support for it in the kernel?

R!tman · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 3:20 pm Post subject:

You should have this, I think.

freez · n00b Joined: 04 Sep 2002 Posts: 37 Location: austria

thanks for your answer!
i the kernel i have:

- scsi-disk support
- scsi generic support
- scsi emulation
- usb-ohci (for the lucent pci usb card)
- usb-(mass)storage
... as modules, and
- all fat, msdos filesystems
... are compiled in.

here is what dmesg tells me about usb related stuff:

SkategoaT · n00b Joined: 29 Mar 2004 Posts: 2

I had the same problem when using mm-sources.

Then I tried the gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.5 with the same kernel-configuration and the usb-disk worked. Don't really know why. I did not change something else.

freez · n00b Joined: 04 Sep 2002 Posts: 37 Location: austria

thats no good. i need 2.6.6-mm2, because it contains drivers for my isa-soundcard.

but i'll try the 2.6.7-rc1
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Nate_S · Guru Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 414

creating the device nodes are not the job of the kernel, but of the device manager. first off, are you using DEVFS or UDEV? Second, lots of people have had the problem of /dev/sda being created but not /dev/sda1. it would, however, be created simply by doing 'touch /dev/sda' Some people were able to fix this by switching to UDEV.

-Nate

EDIT: is there some reason you are using an ISA soundcard??? decent PCI ones can be had for $5...

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Thu May 27, 2004 7:25 pm Post subject:

freez,

If your sound card driver is in the -mm series kerenl it can be added to any other kernel with the same version number. Don't get too hung up about which drivers in which kernel.
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freez · n00b Joined: 04 Sep 2002 Posts: 37 Location: austria

im useing devfs, and i dont have the permission to touch /dev/sda[1].

so im compiling udev right now (might take some time).

and the box im having this problem with, is an pentium-mmx, where i dont want to buy anything for it...
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Rainmaker · Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 12:12 am Post subject:

you shouldn't "touch" in /dev/, use "mknod" instead
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