Citat [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > 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 -- BOFH excuse #84: Someone is standing on the ethernet cable, causeing a kink in the cable
