USB ZIP drive "not a block device" error

[Andrew Hodel]

If you find out how to do it, post it up here so everyone else will know =
how.

Andrew Hodel

On Tuesday 01 October 2002 09:09, Bernard mentink wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Yes, block-major-2 is not there.
>
> I tried to find it on rpmfind .... but no luck. I suspect it is a kerne=
l
> 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 wou=
ld
> > 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 err=
or
> >>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 f=
or
> >>USB product 59b/1/100
> >>Sep 30 16:54:13 localhost /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: missing kernel or u=
ser
> >>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 f=
or
> >>USB product 59b/1/100
> >>Sep 30 16:55:37 localhost /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: missing kernel or u=
ser
> >>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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