USB ZIP drive "not a block device" error

[Andrew Hodel]

I had the same problem with firewire, but I was using hfs, apples filesys=
tem,=20
so I just ran hfs from the command line, if you are using hfs, try it, al=
so=20
run man hfs.  Another thing you may want to try would be running,

modprobe block-major-2

To see if you have it, and if not, get it from rpmfind.net, I have no ide=
a if=20
this will work, it is just a conclusion I draw from your log.

Andrew Hodel

On Tuesday 01 October 2002 09:22, Bernard mentink wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a problem connecting to my USb ZIP100 drive. I get the error
> message "not a block device"
> please see dump below from /var/log/messages
>
> Does this mean I am missing kernel support ( I am running the latest
> YLD2.3). I seem to have the usb-storage module loaded.
> I do modprobe usb-storage and it shows with insmod.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Bernie Mentink
>
> Sep 30 16:54:13 localhost /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usb-storage for
> USB product 59b/1/100
> Sep 30 16:54:13 localhost /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: missing kernel or use=
r
> mode driver usb-storage
> Sep 30 16:54:13 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
> block-major-2
> Sep 30 16:54:13 localhost last message repeated 3 times
> Sep 30 16:54:14 localhost kernel: eth0: switching to forced 100bt
> Sep 30 16:54:22 localhost kernel: eth0: switching to forced 10bt
> Sep 30 16:54:42 localhost kernel: eth0: switching to forced 100bt
> Sep 30 16:54:49 localhost kernel: eth0: switching to forced 10bt
> Sep 30 16:55:10 localhost kernel: eth0: switching to forced 100bt
> Sep 30 16:55:17 localhost kernel: eth0: switching to forced 10bt
> Sep 30 16:55:28 localhost kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 5
> Sep 30 16:55:37 localhost kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on
> bus1/1, assigned device number 6
> Sep 30 16:55:37 localhost /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usb-storage for
> USB product 59b/1/100
> Sep 30 16:55:37 localhost /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: missing kernel or use=
r
> mode driver usb-storage
> Sep 30 16:55:37 localhost kernel: eth0: switching to forced 100bt
> Sep 30 16:55:37 localhost modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
> block-major-2
> Sep 30 16:55:37 localhost last message repeated 3 times
> Sep 30 16:55:44 localhost kernel: eth0: switching to forced 10bt
> Sep 30 16:56:05 localhost kernel: eth0: switching to forced 100bt
>
>
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