Re: External USB HD showing up late in /dev

[Davide Mancusi <arekfu@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:31:50 +0100
Emanoil Kotsev <deloptes@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Upto 2.6.26 I know there is a delay_use option for usb_storage.
> It's set to 5sec by default. I didn't look for such an option in
> 2.6.28, but as delay_use is doing nothing I assume it was either
> removed or replaced.
> 
> What you describe sounds like this default is working for you.
> 
> Are you using 2.6.26 or similar.
> 
> try adding following somehwere in your /etc/modprobe.d/ files
> 
> options usb-storage delay_use=0

Hi Emanoil,

	Yes, I'm using 2.6.26. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think
usb-storage must be loaded from the initrd image, since filesystems are
checked before / is mounted. If that's the case, I don't know how to
pass it the delay_use parameter.

	For the moment, I have added a rootdelay=10 option to the
kernel boot line, but I will try 2.6.28 as soon as it becomes available
in sid. Thank you all for the feedback.

Cheers,
Davide

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