Other Help Topics :: USB mass storage support



Let's take this example:
I run DSL straight from CD without loading any custom settings. So now there's no single thing I've messed up.
Then I plug my mp3-player in... It works. Mounting, unmounting... everything.
But when I unplug it and than plug it back dsl reports same errors. I cannot mount it anymore. Only working way I have discovered is to reboot the system.
I belive I'm not the only one who just accpts to reboot his/hers computer just to access mp3player again.

Memory cards read with my card reader work better. I can plug and unplug those many times. At the some point same error occurs.
When I plugged my Nokia E70 in data transfer mode (acts as a USB mass storage device) it didn't worked at all. Well ok. directories to /mnt were created, but nothing more.
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Kernel 2.4.27
It's 2.4.26

Did you try the 2.4.31 kernel versions of DSL (2.1b)?

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Just read your last post, so I'll add this here:
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But when I unplug it and than plug it back dsl reports same errors. I cannot mount it anymore.
Did you unmount and eject before unplugging?
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I run DSL straight from CD without loading any custom settings. So now there's no single thing I've messed up.
Then I plug my mp3-player in... It works. Mounting, unmounting... everything.
But when I unplug it and than plug it back dsl reports same errors. I cannot mount it anymore. Only working way I have discovered is to reboot the system.


OK now we have a clear statement of your problem.  That helps.

Does this happen with _any_ usb device, or just certain ones?  Ie  have you tried this with other usb devices?

At present I'm sitting here plugging in my usb thumbdrive: mounting, opening, closing, unmounting, and unplugging, and repeating the cycle, on dsl-2.1b (2.4.31 kernel).  No errors.  (I note parenthetically that dsl-2.1b's mount does not display the "must be root to umount" error of later dsls.)

But your problem is ringing a distant bell in the back of my head ....
Please try this:

After unmounting and unplugging the device, do as root:

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rmmod usb-uhci
modprobe usb-uhci


to unload and reload the usb-uhci module.

Then plug the device back in and try to mount.
Ohmy, I am having the same problem and stumbles along this page. I will explain the problem in short n easy way:

1. I have a 256MB USB Pen drive. First time it worked perfectly. Mounting and dissmounting.

2. Screrwd it by installing linux on "sda" thinking it was my hard drive few months back. (First time user ^_^)

3. This week Reformatted with windows XP as FAT32, works well in windows.

4. In DSL Gets detected and displays as 'sda4' 'unmounted' at startup.

Now When I try to mount it I get the error

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"Error:     or to many mounts to handle" (there is blank space b4 or)


And yes I have no other mounts at the same time. My hda1 is being mounted perfectly. + I have installed DSL on my harddrive and am also inserting the usb pre-boot so hotplug can detect it.

(Another problem is I cant see the status on fdisk since it gives a error 'cannot access dev/hda1 & cannot access dev/sda4'. That I will look for in other posts.)
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