On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 11:41:30AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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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