[KLUG Members] Can't Mount USB Mass Storage Device Anymore

Adam Tauno Williams members@kalamazoolinux.org
Thu, 18 Dec 2003 10:14:33 -0500


> > My USB connection to my camera has stopped working.  I used to be able
> > to mount it as a SCSI volume (standard-SCSI-over-USB-thing).  Now it
> > doesn't seem to get mapped to a SCSI device.  "fdisk -l" only shows my
> > hard drive (hda).  Anyone seen this? 
> Did you upgrade to Fedora?  ;-)

No, thats the funny thing.  I haven't done much of anything - system-wize.  I
updated glibc versions via red-carpet (it keeps a log) since I used it last. 
And honestly nothing else.

> Can you manually remove the usb-storage module and re-modprobe it?

I'll try that.

> Do you have a lot of USB storage devices?  Different devices seem to be
> assigned to a different SCSI bus every time, and you could run out.

Yep, I have noticed that.  VERY annoying.

> Last result would be setting your 'uptime' to zero.  :-/

I've rebooted.  It doesn't matter.