[Scottish] usb2 hard drive not being recognised anymore

[Kyle Gordon]

It should be the job of udev to load the correct module. This job used to be 
handled by hotplug. Of course, if usb-storage is already loaded, then you 
should jsut get some messages about /dev/sd* being created.

Kyle

On Monday 15 May 2006 16:47, Thomas McLean wrote:
> Kyle Gordon wrote:
> > On Monday 15 May 2006 16:27, Philip Ward wrote:
> >> Have you tried fdisk -l after plugging in the drive?
> >> The system may choose to put it as sdb instead of sda.
> >> fdisk -l will tell you where the drive is if it can be seen at all.
> >
> > Yep, tried that. When the drive is plugged in, nothing gets loaded. The
> > USB Mass Storage guff in the logs mentioned earlier was from when I
> > loaded the module manually. All that normally gets spewed out by dmesg is
> > this...
> >
> > [4296247.023000] usb 4-4: USB disconnect, address 3
> > [4296249.229000] usb 4-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and
> > address 4
> > [4296249.733000] usb 4-4: device not accepting address 4, error -71
> > [4296249.835000] usb 4-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and
> > address 5
> >
> > So, usb-storage isn't loaded, and /dev/sda* isn't present. the drive also
> > doesn't appear in disk manglement mmc in Windows apparently.
> >
> > Kyle
>
> So I take it that when I plug the drive in usb-storage should turn on?
> Because, if it's not present then why would it recognise it? I'm not
> good with this sorta thing...
>
> Tam.
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