[ale] Not valid block device error

[Sunmeet Saluja]

Geoffrey-
	 usb-storage module is loaded.

Here's what lsmod returns:

[root at tazenda sunny]# /sbin/lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
sg                     33924   0  (autoclean)
udf                    88320   0  (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1           3488   0  (autoclean)
nls_cp437               5120   0  (autoclean)
vfat                   12092   0  (autoclean)
fat                    36984   0  (autoclean) [vfat]
usb-storage            69184   0
cs46xx                 58184   2  (autoclean)
ac97_codec             13248   0  (autoclean) [cs46xx]
soundcore               6468   3  (autoclean) [cs46xx]
mga                   102256  15
agpgart                45152   3
ide-cd                 32256   0  (autoclean)
cdrom                  32128   0  (autoclean) [ide-cd]
nfs                    75708   4  (autoclean)
lockd                  56832   1  (autoclean) [nfs]
sunrpc                 76916   1  (autoclean) [nfs lockd]
autofs                 11844   1  (autoclean)
3c59x                  28552   1
usb-uhci               24676   0  (unused)
usbcore                73792   1  [usb-storage usb-uhci]
ext3                   65984   1
jbd                    47500   1  [ext3]
aic7xxx               133248   2
sd_mod                 12828   4
scsi_mod              107548   6  [sg usb-storage aic7xxx sd_mod]

Thanks for your efforts.

Sunny

Geoffrey wrote:
> Sunmeet Saluja wrote:
> 
>> fdisk /dev/sdc1 yeilds:
>>
>> [root at tazenda sunny]# /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdc1
>>
>> Unable to open /dev/sdc1
>>
>> fdisk /dev/sdc yeilds:
>>
>> [root at tazenda sunny]# /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdc
>>
>> Unable to read /dev/sdc
> 
> 
> You probably don't have the right modules loaded.  What does lsmod return?
> 
> You should have minimally:
> 
> usb-storage
> usbcore
> usb-uhci OR usb-ochi OR uhci
> 
> try: modprobe usb-storage
> 


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