Re: USB hard drive problem.
Thanks,
Restarting the /etc/init.d/hotplug
didn't seem to work, so I'll try this next...
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James Ferrando
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Martin List-Petersen wrote:
> Citat debianlaptop@ferrando.co.uk:
>
> > Hi,
> > I recently set up my laptop (running debian 3.0, with
> > latest 2.4.18-bf24 kernel) to read from my archos jukebox 20
> > portable hard-drive/mp3 player by adding the following line to my
> > /etc/fstab
> >
> > /dev/sda1 /archos auto
> > rw,noauto,user,gid=users,uid=ferrando,umask=
> > 033 0 0
> >
> > the first time I added this line and tried mount /archos, it worked (which
> > was nice).
> > 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.
> >
> > Is there a place I can put the mount information (perhaps in automount
> > scripts) that will me having to edit the fstab script continually, or
> > reboot when I need to use the hard drive?
>
> Try download this script: http://www.marlow.dk/tech/src/rescan-scsi-bus.sh.txt
>
> And run it.
>
> It rescan's all scsi-channels (also usb and firewire) and finds all scsi devices
> available.
>
> If you removed some devices, you should run it with the "-r" option.
>
> Of course this has to be done as root.
>
> Regards,
> Martin List-Petersen
> martin at list-petersen dot dk
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