Re: USB hard drive problem.

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 11:41:30AM +0200, debianlaptop@ferrando.co.uk wrote:
> Hi,

> If I boot up the laptop with the drive connected then it works fine,
> however if I boot up the laptop then connect the drive and try to mount
> /archos then I get
> 
> mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
> 
> and /proc/scsi/usb/usb-storage, although existing conatins only an empty
> file (normally it contains something like: ARCHOS Jukebox connected)
> 
> When I previously used this device with SuSE 7.2 I did not observe this
> behaviour, so I suppose that something is happening at the init stage that
> is odd, since if I comment the line in /etc/fstab reboot the machine, then
> plug in the hard drive, then uncomment hte line and try to mount it , it
> works again.
> 
I am not sure whether it is kernel related.  I have seen the same
behaviour on one of my machines (also with 2.4.18 kernel).  On others
with later kernels it works without a problem.

Workaround: Do a /etc/init.d/hotplug force-reload and your usb-device
should be mountable after that.

Regards

Johann
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