Memorex TravelDrive not automounting on FC6 x86_64

[Raymond C. Rodgers]

Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 10:53 PM -0700 5/25/07, Raymond C. Rodgers wrote:
>   
>> I originally posted this cry for help almost a week ago under the "Re:
>> usb stick, can't mount" thread, but there hasn't been the slightest hint
>> of a response; I'm taking the view point that that thread is considered
>> dead without a resolution. I'm hoping that someone will notice my new
>> thread and be able to help.
>>
>> The quick summary of the issue is that my USB 1 GB Memorex TravelDrive
>> used to auto-mount perfectly under FC6 x86_64 up until a couple weeks
>> ago, when it suddenly stopped. I am able to manually mount it using
>> mount or pmount command line tools, but oddly the drive continues to
>> auto-mount perfectly at work under FC5 i386, on another machine here at
>> home running FC6 i386 that hasn't been updated in several months, and of
>> course gets mounted properly under Windows 2000 & XP. I've toggled all
>> of the auto-mount settings under Removable Drives and Media, but the
>> problem remains that when I plug the TravelDrive into the problem
>> machine while in FC6 x86_64, the drive gets mounted and unmounted within
>> the span of half a second. No error messages appear, no warnings, nothing.
>>
>> I'm attaching the dmesg output from both the working FC6 i386 machine
>> and the FC6 x86_64 non-working machine. The only significant difference
>> I think I've seen is that the i386 machine appears to be using USB 1.1
>> to access the TravelDrive (admittedly though a hub) where as the x86_64
>> machine is using 2.0. The TravelDrive supports both, and it operates
>> normally when manually mounted through mount/pmount on the "non-working"
>> 64 bit machine.
>>
>> Could a kernel update have broken this? Does anyone have an idea how to
>> fix the problem? Like I said, I can manually mount it but that's a bit
>> of a pain...
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Raymond
>>
>> Linux version 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 (brewbuilder at hs20-bc2-2.build.redhat.com)
>> (gcc version 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-51)) #1 SMP Wed Jan 10 19:28:18
>> EST 2007
>> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
>> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
>> BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
>> BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
>> BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000004fff0000 (usable)
>> BIOS-e820: 000000004fff0000 - 000000004fff3000 (ACPI NVS)
>> BIOS-e820: 000000004fff3000 - 0000000050000000 (ACPI data)
>> BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
>> BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
>> BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
>> 383MB HIGHMEM available.
>> 896MB LOWMEM available.
>> found SMP MP-table at 000f5410
>> Using x86 segment limits to approximate NX protection
>>     
>  ...
>   
>> usb 1-2.3: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6
>> usb 1-2.3: not running at top speed; connect to a high speed hub
>> usb 1-2.3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
>> scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
>> usb-storage: device found at 6
>> usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
>> scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Memorex  TD Classic 003B  PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI:
>> 0 CCS
>> SCSI device sdb: 2007040 512-byte hdwr sectors (1028 MB)
>> sdb: Write Protect is off
>> sdb: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
>> sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
>> SCSI device sdb: 2007040 512-byte hdwr sectors (1028 MB)
>> sdb: Write Protect is off
>> sdb: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
>> sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
>> sdb: sdb1
>> sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
>> sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
>> usb-storage: device scan complete
>>     
>
> AFAICT the x86 one looks OK.  The memory stick is connected to an external
> High-speed (USB 1.1) hub.
>
>
>   
>> Linux version 2.6.20-1.2948.fc6 (brewbuilder at ls20-bc2-14.build.redhat.com)
>> (gcc version 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-51)) #1 SMP Fri Apr 27 19:18:54
>> EDT 2007
>> Command line: ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
>> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
>>     
>  ...
>   
>> AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ stepping 01
>>     
>  ...
>   
>> usb 2-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
>> usb 2-6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
>> Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
>> scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
>> usb-storage: device found at 2
>> usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
>> usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
>> USB Mass Storage support registered.
>> scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Memorex  TD Classic 003B  PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI:
>> 0 CCS
>> SCSI device sdc: 2007040 512-byte hdwr sectors (1028 MB)
>> sdc: Write Protect is off
>> sdc: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
>> sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
>> SCSI device sdc: 2007040 512-byte hdwr sectors (1028 MB)
>> sdc: Write Protect is off
>> sdc: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
>> sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
>> sdc: sdc1
>> sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdc
>> sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
>> usb-storage: device scan complete
>>     
>
> AFAICT the x64 one also looks OK.  The memory stick is connected to a
> High-speed (USB 1.1) hub.
>
> ISTM that the problem is after the USB part of things.  Look at other logs,
> such as /var/log/messages, /var/log/audit/audit.log if you have one, or
> maybe /var/log/secure.
>
> I assume that you are plugging the device after booting?
>   
The following is a segment out of /var/log/messages from when I 
originally posted under the "usb stick, can't mount" thread, but the 
problem has gone away since I did a clean install of F7 a few hours ago. 
I initially did an upgrade install of F7 but that didn't cure the 
problem, so I wiped the partition and reinstalled. Thanks for your help 
any how!



May 20 15:54:27 localhost kernel: usb 2-6: new high speed USB device 
using ehci_hcd and address 2
May 20 15:54:27 localhost kernel: usb 2-6: configuration #1 chosen from 
1 choice
May 20 15:54:27 localhost kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
May 20 15:54:27 localhost kernel: scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass 
Storage devices
May 20 15:54:27 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new interface 
driver usb-storage
May 20 15:54:27 localhost kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
May 20 15:54:32 localhost kernel: scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access     
Memorex  TD Classic 003B  PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
May 20 15:54:32 localhost kernel: SCSI device sdc: 2007040 512-byte hdwr 
sectors (1028 MB)
May 20 15:54:32 localhost kernel: sdc: Write Protect is off
May 20 15:54:32 localhost kernel: sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
May 20 15:54:32 localhost kernel: SCSI device sdc: 2007040 512-byte hdwr 
sectors (1028 MB)
May 20 15:54:32 localhost kernel: sdc: Write Protect is off
May 20 15:54:32 localhost kernel: sdc: assuming drive cache: write through
May 20 15:54:32 localhost kernel:  sdc: sdc1
May 20 15:54:32 localhost kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable 
disk sdc
May 20 15:54:32 localhost kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 
type 0


Raymond