usb/scsi mystery

[Ben Duncan]

Yuuuupppp ... try mounting it with a /dev/sde1 .......

A quick Look into /var/log/messages will show the device when/where it 
is plugged in.

Gesssss ..... this is getting scary ..... I am getting to know a 
little about linux ....

Tony Alfrey wrote:
> OK, here's the wierdness of the week award.
> 
> My box is all SCSI and has as many as 4 SCSI drives and a USB port for 
> my CompactFlash reader.
> If I hook up 3 SCSI drives, the USB device (the CompactFlash reader) 
> appears as sdd and is easily mounted.  It appears properly on
> cat /proc/scsi/scsi and
> cat /proc/bus/usb/devices  and
> fdisk -l
> with a vfat filesystem
> 
> Now I plug in the 4th SCSI drive, reboot and the USB device appears as 
> sde like it's supposed to, same messages as above (except it's now 
> sde).  But trying to mount it gives the typical "bad superblocks or 
> wrong filesystem type" message and dmesg gives
> 
> fatfs: bogus cluster size
> VFS: Can't find a valid MSDOS filesystem on dev 08:40.
> 
> Any SCSI/usb experts have a clue here??
> Thanks very much in advance.
> 
> 


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