[ale] USB Pendrive on RH 8.0

[Pete Hardie]

Ok, partial success.

I am able to mount the pendrive as an ext2 system via
mount -t ext2 /dev/sda /mnt/usb

and this was made possible by having the drive plugged in and doing:
mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sda

However, it is flaky - this morning I was unable to mount the drive.  lsusb 
shows the device, but not all of the params, like so:
Bus 001 Device 007: ID 0ea0:6803
   Language IDs: none (cannot get min. string descriptor; got len=-1, 
error=110:Connection timed out)
Device Descriptor:
   bLength                18
   bDescriptorType         1
   bcdUSB               1.10
   bDeviceClass            0 Interface
   bDeviceSubClass         0
   bDeviceProtocol         0
   bMaxPacketSize0        64
   idVendor           0x0ea0
   idProduct          0x6803
   bcdDevice            1.00
   iManufacturer           1
   iProduct                2
   iSerial                 3
   bNumConfigurations      1
cannot get config descriptor 0, Connection timed out (110)
   Language IDs: none (cannot get min. string descriptor; got len=-1, 
error=110:Connection timed out)

Other times I see much more data for the pendrive.  The USB hub shows up 
consistently with its data.


Also, the main reason I wanted this was to transfer files to/from the wife's 
Windoze box (ftp has been giving me trouble, and heck, security through turning 
it off works for me), and I was unable to get a vfat filesystem on the pendrive, 
although I'm probably not doing it right.  /var/log/messages entries that appear 
to relate to this are:
Apr 15 00:07:15 nyet kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 
0, id 0, lun 0
Apr 15 00:07:15 nyet kernel: SCSI device sda: 64512 512-byte hdwr sectors (33 MB)
Apr 15 00:07:15 nyet kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Apr 15 00:07:15 nyet kernel:  sda: unknown partition table
Apr 15 00:07:31 nyet kernel: FAT: bogus logical sector size 65535
Apr 15 00:07:31 nyet kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 08:00.
Apr 15 00:16:04 nyet kernel: FAT: bogus logical sector size 65535
Apr 15 00:16:04 nyet kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 08:00.
Apr 15 00:16:08 nyet kernel: VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev sd(8,0).
Apr 15 00:16:12 nyet kernel: VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sd(8,0).
Apr 15 00:16:28 nyet kernel: FAT: bogus logical sector size 65535
Apr 15 00:16:28 nyet kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 08:00.
Apr 15 00:16:28 nyet kernel: UMSDOS: msdos_read_super failed, mount aborted.
Apr 15 00:17:02 nyet kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device 2




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