problems mounting external USB hard drives

[olivine]

Hello,
I have a sheevaplug running Debian (2.6.32-5-kirkwood) on an SD card. Everything is running smoothly except that I cannot mount external USB drives.

Trying to connect a USB drive gives:

Code:

dmesg | tail
[  202.191072] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using orion-ehci and address 2
[  202.343225] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=067b, idProduct=2507
[  202.349964] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[  202.357147] usb 1-1: Product: Mass Storage Device
[  202.361888] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Prolific Technology Inc.
[  202.367489] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 0
[  202.373016] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[  202.456271] scsi_mod: Unknown symbol blk_get_queue
[  202.467174] scsi_mod: Unknown symbol blk_put_queue
[  202.490700] scsi_mod: Unknown symbol blk_get_queue
[  202.501623] scsi_mod: Unknown symbol blk_put_queue

# fdisk -l  does not show the USB drive.

I get this with several different hard drives (1TB Western Digital, 40GB 2.5", USB thumbdrive, with or without external USB hub, etc.). There is very little information on the web regarding a "scsi_mod: Unknown symbol..." error. One forum discusses issues with the kernel not being flashed properly: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=644850
However, running flash-kernel and rebooting doesn't help.

Any ideas about what could be wrong? Should I try a different kernel ? I'm at a loss here. Any advice would be appreciated.

[birdman]

Hello,
I have a sheevaplug running Debian (2.6.32-5-kirkwood) on an SD card. Everything is running smoothly except that I cannot mount external USB drives.

So how long have you been in this state?
If it has just started, what did you do just before that?

[olivine]

I'm not sure...I had a hard time setting it up early on. After I finally put Debian on the SD, I couldn't get the external HD to work, and I thought it had something to do with its large size. I had a USB key working though. I experimented various things, but never really set up a HD because I wasn't using it as a server on a regular basis.