On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 08:48 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:57:44 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > > > What does tail-f /var/log/messages show while you plug in the > > > > device? > > [snip] > > Only one device is detected, despite there being four. Did you say the HD > shows up after the memory card slots in Windows? If so, only one of these > is detected as sda, no wonder you can't mount the HD.
that appears to have been the problem! > What does > > grep SCSI /usr/src/linux/.config | grep -v ^# > > show? CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=y CONFIG_SCSI=y CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS=y CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y CONFIG_SCSI_SPI_ATTRS=m CONFIG_SCSI_QLA2XXX=y It appears the final solution is: 1) CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y 2) linux-2.6.15-rc5 3) wait for 5 seconds before trying to mount the device (I had a script in /etc/hotplug/usb.agent which was working too fast!) Now I see /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, and /dev/sdd, which holds the harddrive partitions! thanks for all the help. -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> If I were a grave-digger or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment. -- Douglas Jerrold -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list