USB storage: /dev/sda1?

[selan]

I have a USB key drive that I was able to use under Mandrake 9.2. Then I did some updates and I wasn't able to mount it anymore. /dev/sda1 disappeared from /dev and from /etc/fstab.

 

I manually added it back to /etc/fstab:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/removable auto user,exec,sync,rw,noauto 0 0

 

and recreated /dev/sda1 with mknod.

 

However, when I insert the USB key, dmesg shows this error:

usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 2

usb 1-1: device not accepting address 2, error -110

usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 3

usb 1-1: device not accepting address 3, error -110

 

and when I try to mount /dev/sda1 I get:

dev/sda1 is not a valid block device

 

I have since upgraded to Mandrake 10.0 with kernel 2.6.3-9mdk but still have the same errors.

Edited June 8, 2004 by selan

[SwiftDeath]

Did you try disabling supermount?

[selan]

AFAIK I'm not using supermount, but I tried running supermount -i disable just in case and still get the same errors. Here is my /etc/fstab if it helps:

 

/dev/hda7 / ext2 noatime 1 1

none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0

none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0

/dev/hda1 /mnt/c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,nosuid,user,exec,nodev0 0

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,nosuid,sync,user,unhide,nodev,exec 0 0

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0

/dev/sda1 /mnt/removable auto user,exec,sync,rw,noauto 0 0