usb storage devices

[T. Horsnell (tsh)]

If you watch /var/log/messages, (tail -f /var/log/messages as root)
do you see the system detect it when you plug in your USB device?
And there should also be a line added to /etc/fstab after
the device is inserted. Does this happen?

Cheers,
Terry.


>Hello,
>
>Yes, I have tried rebooting repeatedly, but neither device is
>recognized by FC3 after downloading the updates.  I gather that others
>are having similar problems, though there seems to be a workaround
>that looks like voodoo to me.  As much as I would like to contribute,
>this is beyond me, so I will have to wait for those of you with more
>brains than I have to find and repair the problem.  Hopefully, I won't
>need any backups for a while.
>
>
>On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 08:02:32 +0000, Rob Kirkbride
><rob.kirkbride at thales-is.com> wrote:
>> 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
>> 
>>
>
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