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Message from Steven
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James wrote:
>
> I was able to mount a USB thumb drive on my newly-setup 
> laptop with BL3 and using the 2.2.26 kernel and modules 
> supplied by Steven. 
>
> First, I inserted the USB drive into the USB port. 
> Then I insmod'ed 5 modules in the following order: 
> 1) usbcore; 
> 2) usb-ohci; 
> 3) scsi_mod; 
> 4) sd_mod; and 
> 5) usb-storage 
> I then mounted that device file to a mount point I had 
> created in the /mnt directory (mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb). 
> I was then able to cd to that mount point and view the 
> drive's contents.

Wow, that's great news.  AFAIK you are the first person
to successfully mount a USB device with the standard BL3
kernel.  Many thanks for this information.

Cheers,
Steven