Recent readers might recall that in the thread about printers I pointed out that for small quantities of colour printing I make use of a local photoshop rather than buy an inkjet printer and let it get clogged from lack of daily use, or an expensive colour laserjet. I use a USB stick. As it happens this is a freebe handed out at the Novell SUSE openday. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/TImeD3KLbuAsJVYbpDMALOWabReVKoQi93sfoYi8kAfX=w1123-... This happens to be a 2G drive. It came with the presentation materials This years model is a 4G and is readable & mountable and recognisable by KDE/Konqueror. It has, in dmesg [166069.975874] usb 1-4: New USB device found, idVendor=abcd, idProduct=1234 [166069.975881] usb 1-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [166069.975885] usb 1-4: Product: [166069.975888] usb 1-4: Manufacturer: General I haven't yet erased the presentation material and 're-purposed' this yet. It is last years model I'm having problems with. I used that under the 3.xx OS even under 12.x and 13.1 as the transport of images from my machine, processed by darktable, However when I come to use it with the 4.0.x kernel its no recognised enough to be mountable. [166521.671039] usb 1-4: new high-speed USB device number 11 using ehci-pci [166522.466824] usb 1-4: New USB device found, idVendor=058f, idProduct=1234 [166522.466831] usb 1-4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0 [166522.466835] usb 1-4: Product: Mass Storage Device [166522.466838] usb 1-4: Manufacturer: Alcor Micro [166522.467363] usb-storage 1-4:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected [166522.467568] scsi host15: usb-storage 1-4:1.0 [166523.469874] scsi 15:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic USB Flash Disk 7.76 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 [166523.470564] sd 15:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0 [166523.471860] sd 15:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk No "sdb: sdb1" line. The KDE device notifier says nothing is there. Regular readers will also know my opinion on documenting things. I tag each and every USB disk drive since, unlike floppy disks, there isn't label you can write on. Sometimes I can use white-ex but more often then not I need a key-ring tab http://www.selectlocks.com/assets/images/luckyline/605.jpg that may reference my notes but more often that not its enough for a generic description, as is the case here: "2G/Blacks/Photos" This is an exreme case. I have a few other USB devices that are bootable since I created them as install or Live devices under earlier version of Suse or earlier kernels. I look though the UDISK rules and get to wonder ... Why that 4G drive is recognised when the 2G one isn't, since the vendor/model aren't encoded there. I'm wondering is anyone else is using the 4.0 kernel and having USB problems? -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org