USB ZIP drive "not a block device" error

[Bernard mentink]

Hi Andrew,

Yes, block-major-2 is not there.

I tried to find it on rpmfind .... but no luck. I suspect it is a kernel 
thing.
Bernie

Andrew Hodel wrote:

>I had the same problem with firewire, but I was using hfs, apples filesystem, 
>so I just ran hfs from the command line, if you are using hfs, try it, also 
>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 idea if 
>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 user
>>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 user
>>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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