On Saturday 20 October 2001 18:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have an external USB hard drive made by LaCie, which worked out of the > box, was automatically detected during installation, and is set up with > scsi emulation. If I boot with the drive turned on, it is accessible as > sda1 & sda5 (it is partitioned into 2 FAT32 partitions). There are errors > when it first tries to mount, saying that the 2 devices do not exist, but > then (I think because it only turns on scsi emulation AFTER trying to > mount the drives) it tries a few seconds later in the boot sequence and is > successful. > > My problem is as follows: if the drive is NOT turned on at boot time, I > can NOT mount either of the partitions on the drive, getting an error > message saying that the devices do not exist. The kernel modules for usb > scsi emulation are loaded (and I even tried removing and reinserting the > modules which I think are needed), but it just does not work. > > I think (and please tell me if I am wrong or omitting something) the > modules that are used are usb-scsi usb-ohci and usb-storage (I think, am > not at home and doing this from memory). > > The other question I have, although not as bad because it still works, is > the error message I get when the system boots (that I mentioned at the > beginning) where the mounting of the usb drive's partitions fails and then > a few seconds later succeeds. Is this because the system tries to mount > the scsi drives (sda1 & sda5) BEFORE the usb-scsi emulation is loaded? > > I DO hope that someone can help me. > > TIA, > David Charles
---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ---------------------------------------- I wish *SOMEBODY* would include a USB kernel as an install option! USB keyboard and mouse work a lot better if they are available all through the boot process. Also in regard to your first question, it seems that the USB has gotten a whole lot less "unpluggable" in 2.4. Hint: this is a step backwards! mg
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