udev does not create /dev/sdX device files for USB device.
Issue
- When USB device is connected to the system, following messages are being logged in
/var/log/messagesfile which indicates that USB device is detected as disksde. But it was found that there was not device file/dev/sdecreated for it.
Jan 20 12:25:57 host1 kernel: usb 2-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
Jan 20 12:25:57 host1 kernel: usb 2-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Jan 20 12:25:57 host1 kernel: scsi8 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Jan 20 12:26:02 host1 kernel: Vendor: Kingston Model: DataTraveler II+ Rev: PMAP
Jan 20 12:26:02 host1 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Jan 20 12:26:02 host1 kernel: SCSI device sde: 8059904 512-byte hdwr sectors (4127 MB) <---
Jan 20 12:26:02 host1 kernel: sde: Write Protect is off
Jan 20 12:26:02 host1 kernel: sde: assuming drive cache: write through
Jan 20 12:26:02 host1 kernel: SCSI device sde: 8059904 512-byte hdwr sectors (4127 MB)
Jan 20 12:26:02 host1 kernel: sde: Write Protect is off
Jan 20 12:26:02 host1 kernel: sde: assuming drive cache: write through
Jan 20 12:26:02 host1 kernel: sde: unknown partition table
Jan 20 12:26:02 host1 kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sde
Jan 20 12:26:02 host1 kernel: sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8
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