Re: USB hard drive problem.
Thanks Johann,
I didn't actually have hotplug installed before, but have
now installed it, and will try this out once I've filled it full of music.
James
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Johann Spies wrote:
> 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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