Re: [gentoo-user] wtf is superfloppy? (vosonic usb drive)

[Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>]

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.
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

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