Re: USB sd's do not attach

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 09:27:31AM -0400, George E Sollish wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an IBM Z pro Intellistation running 5.0 amd64.  It's a fresh  
> install and I'm loading lots of software, building from pkgsrc.  When I  
> started usb sticks whould be detected and attach as sd's.  Now, several  
> days and a few reboots later, usb sticks are recognized when inserted --  
> the vendor ids are correctly read and reported to dmesg -- but they don't 
> attach, only a 'not configured' is reported.  The same usb sticks (four,  
> from two manufacturers) are identified, attached and read/written by my  
> FreeBSD and linux boxes, so it's not the sticks or the files on them.  I  
> can also attach a wireless mouse to the usb ports being used, so it's not 
> the ports.
>
> It appears that something has removed the system's ability to recognize  
> the sticks as sd devices.  Any idea what I did and how to repair it?

Did you rebuild a custom kernel ? If so make sure you still have
scsibus* at scsi?
sd*     at scsibus? target ? lun ?
atapibus* at atapi?
sd*     at atapibus? drive ? flags 0x0000
umass*  at uhub? port ? configuration ? interface ? 
wd*     at umass?

in your kernel config file

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