I have OS 4.1 Final Editon installed on my uA1c. For some reason I am now experencing a problem that I have never seen before. When I insert a USB flash drive, I am now getting a:
System request
Unable to open USB Function driver
"massstorage.driver"
This seems to happen with all of my USB flash drives. However, there is a file called "massstorage.usbfd" (version 53.39) in my directory "sys:kickstart". In a probably unrelated area, I can still print to my printer via USB. Does anyone have any idea as to how to fix this problem.

Last edited by Ned on 21-Jul-2017 at 09:24 PM.

@Ned

The "massstorage.usbfd" is only used for "mass storage" devices like USB sticks and external disk drives. The printer uses a different driver (DEVS:usbprinter.device), so that is why it still works.

Check that the massstorage driver is actually loaded by Kickstart. Examine the Kicklayout script in Kickstart/ and check for a line like this:

"MODULE Kickstart/massstorage.usbfd". Make sure it is not commented out with a semicolon.

The file should list as:
"massstorage.usbfd 157964 ----rwed 22-Nov-14 23:00:00", with an md5sum:

md5sum CleanFE:Kickstart/massstorage.usbfd
590661be3c4b714a34d5371f048d2d4c CleanFE:Kickstart/massstorage.usbfd

Good luck !

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@tonyw

FYI. I have NOT yet installed OS4.1 FinalUpdate1. On my system the file lists the same as what you suggest except for the date and time which are: "08-Oct-14 22:58.31". I also ran the md5sum by typing in:
md5sum sys:kickstart/massstorage.usbfd
and got the same checksum that you did. My system did NOT recognize "CleanFE:" which is why I used "sys:". Any other thoughts?

Ned

@Ned

copy & paste t:usb.log here, maybe there is some thing interesting there.

"ram disk:t/"

"uA1c" is that not only usb1.1, so I guess if your trying to plug in usb2.0 or usb3.0 stuff it wont work, maybe that is your problem.

Last edited by NutsAboutAmiga on 21-Jul-2017 at 07:18 PM.
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@NutsAboutAmiga

Thanks for this suggestion. I'll try to remember it if I ever have this problem again.

However, my problem has just vanished. I was going to look at the usb.log file. So
I obviously wanted to reproduce the problem. But when I inserted a flash drive, it is
now working just fine as it always has.

On my system I have 3 drives. The first IDE master has all my working partitions. The
slave has an enclosure that enables me to insert and remove a tray containing an IDE
hard disk which I use as a backup medium. And the second IDE master has my CD/DVD
drive. The only thing that I could think of that was different between yesterday and
today was the tray containing my backup IDE drive. But when I put the backup drive
that I had in the machine yesterday, I am still unable to reproduce the problem. So,
I guess I'll just cross my fingers and hope this never happens again.

Thanks,
Ned

@Ned

I have exactly the same problem. I was going to post about it yesterday but didn't have time. USB drives have never worked for me OS4.1FEU1 and were flaky before that. I have an OS4.1u6 partition and USB drives work fine there.

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@Ned

My partition containing the clean installation of Final Edition is called "CleanFE". I have a similar partition called "CleanFEUpdate1". I don't use either of them, they exist merely as a reference point for questions like yours. Neither of those volume names will apply to your case and your use of the assign "SYS:" is quite correct.

The version of massstorage.usbfd distributed with Update 1 is dated 2016 and much smaller.

I'm glad to hear that you got it going again, though.

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@Chris_Y

The version of massstorage.usbfd distributed with FE Update 1 uses (and depends on) mounter.library. Please check that your Kicklayout includes and loads mounter.library:

>FEUpdate1:Kickstart/

>list massstorage.usbfd mounter.library
massstorage.usbfd 55780 ----rwed 27-Nov-16 20:09:30
mounter.library 65320 ----rwed 13-Nov-16 08:22:22

>version full file massstorage.usbfd
massstorage.usbfd 53.83 (27/11/2016)

>version full file mounter.library
mounter.library 53.19 (13/11/2016)

>search Kicklayout mounter
66 MODULE Kickstart/mounter.library

Hope this helps.

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