Re: External USB HD showing up late in /dev
Davide Mancusi wrote:
> 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.
I don't remember the exact syntax. I think it was something like
usb_storage.delay_use=0 but rootdalay does the same. you can set it to 6 or
7 if you are unpatient.
>
> 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.
>
It's not working in 2.6.28 because the delay_use option vanished I guess. So
may be you can stick to rootdelay
regards
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