[ale] flash drives

[bpitts at learnlink.emory.edu (Brian Pitts)]

What does running dmesg report after you attach the drives?

Here's what I see after plugging one in on Fedora Core 6.

usb 4-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
usb 4-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 3
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
  Vendor: PNY       Model: USB 2.0 FD        Rev: 1.13
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
usb-storage: device scan complete
scsi 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
SCSI device sda: 501760 512-byte hdwr sectors (257 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 501760 512-byte hdwr sectors (257 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
 sda: sda1
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
SELinux: initialized (dev sda1, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts

-Brian