Thread for problems getting USB hostmode working.

[casper27]

Post all problems with getting USB Hostmost working on different USB peripherals here.
It is Beta software but has been proved to work by numerous people on here so its mostly a case by case problem.
The developers are getting mighty P*ssed with winey posts and duplicate questions on the other thread.

[werebug]

Is it possible to use this on Ubuntu

So I can use keyboard and mouse

[esthreel]

i am having problem with external HDD, flash and mouse worked great. So the drive is 3.5 inch and has power supply, the size is 1TB and it is formatted as NTFS. I know i have to open terminal sudo gainroot and then modprobe ntfs. When I have to do this? after I opn hen? Thanks.

[MohammadAG]

Before you mount, however you might need extra packages (that may/may not be available in maemo) for write support.

[esthreel]

Originally Posted by MohammadAG

Before you mount, however you might need extra packages (that may/may not be available in maemo) for write support.

I got this error.

[MohammadAG]

I don't have any NTFS drives, so I can't test, but it should be possible to mount /dev/sda1 /mnt in terminal and open it in filebox

[esthreel]

Originally Posted by MohammadAG

I don't have any NTFS drives, so I can't test, but it should be possible to mount /dev/sda1 /mnt in terminal and open it in filebox

So the default file manager will not see any drives that are NTFS?

[MohammadAG]

Originally Posted by esthreel

So the default file manager will not see any drives that are NTFS?

[ 8916.612762] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using musb_hdrc and address 4
[ 8916.791564] usb 1-1: default language 0x0409
[ 8916.842742] usb 1-1: uevent
[ 8916.842864] usb 1-1: usb_probe_device
[ 8916.842895] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 8916.845275] usb 1-1: adding 1-1:1.0 (config #1, interface 0)
[ 8916.845428] usb 1-1:1.0: uevent
[ 8916.845581] libusual 1-1:1.0: usb_probe_interface
[ 8916.845611] libusual 1-1:1.0: usb_probe_interface - got id
[ 8916.845672] usb-storage 1-1:1.0: usb_probe_interface
[ 8916.845703] usb-storage 1-1:1.0: usb_probe_interface - got id
[ 8916.851623] scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 8916.857360] usb-storage: device found at 4
[ 8916.857391] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 8916.858276] /home/builder1/maemo-fremantle-armel-extras-devel/work/kernel-power-2.6.28/drivers/usb/core/inode.c: creating file '004'
[ 8916.858581] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=059f, idProduct=1013
[ 8916.858612] usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=10, Product=11, SerialNumber=12
[ 8916.858612] usb 1-1: Product: LaCie Hard Disk
[ 8916.858642] usb 1-1: Manufacturer: LaCie
[ 8916.858642] usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 2007102500100BB3
[ 8916.858673] hub 1-0:1.0: state 7 ports 1 chg 0000 evt 0002
[ 8916.858703] hub 1-0:1.0: port 1 enable change, status 00000503
[ 8920.256958] twl4030_keypad twl4030_keypad: Spurious key event 4-2
[ 8920.500457] twl4030_keypad twl4030_keypad: Spurious key event 4-2
[ 8921.856048] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 8921.857299] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ST350082 0AS                   PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS
[ 8921.870544] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 1953546336 512-byte hardware sectors: (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
[ 8921.871276] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 8921.871307] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 38 00 00
[ 8921.871307] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 8921.872131] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 1953546336 512-byte hardware sectors: (1.00 TB/931 GiB)
[ 8921.872863] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
[ 8921.872863] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 38 00 00
[ 8921.872894] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 8921.872924]  sda: sda1
[ 8921.917846] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
/home/user #

If you mount under /media, it should.

mkdir -p /media/ntfs
mount /dev/sda1 /media/ntfs

[esthreel]

Originally Posted by MohammadAG

If you mount under /media, it should.

mkdir -p /media/ntfs
mount /dev/sda1 /media/ntfs

It worked all like a charm, thanks.



But the problem is that when I open it from list with default manager i see text (no files), it sees the disk as empty. If i go to filebox I see them all. The bigger problem is that when i try to open a file I get for jpg / pdf - file format not supported, for music / video - file not found. Any ideas?

P.S. http://talk.maemo.org/archive/index.php/t-17811.html Any one looked on this?

[Larswad]

@esthreel: This is basic mounting knowledge for linux. You have to give rights to the user (since you run the filemanager as 'user').
you first need the id of your user and users group:

to find out, enter:

id user

and you will get the user's id. (You will probably get 29999 for both 'user' id and the 'users' group).

now, as root:

mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /media/ntfs -o uid=29999,gid=29999,utf8,dmask=027,fmask=137

Replace the 29999 with the id you got, if it was different of course.
Now, you should be able to access your files from the file manager.
Good luck.