[ILUG] USB Mass Storage

[Gavin McCullagh]

On Fri, 09 Jan 2004, James Cooper wrote:

> I've a question about using a DiskOnKey with  linux.
> Basically, what options do i need to select when compiling the kernel?
> (The default RedHat 7.3 kernel doesn't support it). 

You need a kernel with USB support and modules compiled.  If you can read
from the device you must already have this though.  That's a pretty old
version of RH at this stage.

If not you need the usb_storage module which will in turn need a usb
usb_uhci, usbcore (I think those names are correct) though they should
most likely probe automatically.

> Everytime i've tried to do it so far, writing to the device seems to work
> (no command line errors) but nothing is physically written.

One presumes you've not set read-only on the device itself.  You've mounted
it and can read from it yeah?  Check the output of the dmesg command and
look in /var/log/syslog

Gavin