usb storage devices

[Rob Kirkbride]

Dale Raby wrote on 02/02/2005 01:15:

>I am running Fedora Core 3.  
>
>Recently I ran Yum Update and now find that my USB storage devices (a
>Kingston "pen" drive" and an Iomega Zip 250 drive) are no longer
>detected by the system.  I had this problem once before, and solved it
>by re-installing with the original disks and not updating.  I suppose
>I could do the same thing again, but surely there must be a better
>solution that avoiding updates!
>
>Both devices worked fine previous to the updates, and they still work
>on the same hardware using Knoppix.
>  
>

Have you done a reboot following the updates?. I noticed when the 
haldaemon was updated that a reboot was needed on one of my machines. If 
you don't want to do a reboot you could do a /etc/rc.d/init.d/haldaemon 
restart and see if that sorts things first.


Rob