From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NR8y3-00069L-Ro for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:44:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA998E0788; Sat, 2 Jan 2010 18:44:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C69CE0788 for ; Sat, 2 Jan 2010 18:44:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29B031B4023 for ; Sat, 2 Jan 2010 18:44:09 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.457 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.457 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-2.046, BAYES_00=-2.599, FH_DATE_PAST_20XX=3.188] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id gau-Wxf6SDu8 for ; Sat, 2 Jan 2010 18:44:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AEA11B4014 for ; Sat, 2 Jan 2010 18:44:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1NR8x9-0002mU-9s for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:43:55 +0100 Received: from adsl-69-234-184-33.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.184.33]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:43:55 +0100 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-184-33.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:43:55 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Externel drive should be /dev/sda1, but /dev/sda1 does not exist Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:43:33 -0800 Message-ID: References: <1262353732.26846.60.camel@camille.espersunited.com> <1262442919.26846.69.camel@camille.espersunited.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-184-33.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20100102 Thunderbird/3.2a1pre In-Reply-To: <1262442919.26846.69.camel@camille.espersunited.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 6c1b9176-6ff3-4835-a416-8e9246b6b279 X-Archives-Hash: ef526a9a803f52d123f97deccaccb7e4 On 01/02/2010 06:35 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: > On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 11:37 -0800, walt wrote: >> On 01/01/2010 05:48 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: >>> Hello >>> >>> My wife's computer is pretty slow, so I've attached and old hard drive >>> into a hard drive enclosure and hooked it into her USB port for >>> additional swap space. It used to work. The swap space is supposed to >>> be /dev/sda1. The problem is that for some reason when I rebooted this >>> morning with a new kernel, /dev/sda does not exist anymore... >> >> Hm. So the only thing you changed was the new kernel? Might help to >> know why you built the new kernel. What problem were you solving by >> doing it? > OK here goes. I built the new kernel because with the old one /dev/sda > didn't seem to exist when I know it should... IIUC, you built the new kernel to see if it would fix the missing sda problem, but it didn't fix it. Is this correct? Because sda does show up when you hotplug the drive after bootup, the problem seems to be timing rather than a misconfigured kernel. I also compile USB support as modules, and yet my USB sticks show up properly after bootup. I do use the 'hotplug' package and start it at the 'default' runlevel (though I confess I really don't know if I need it). Do you have that package, or did you? I assume your drive enclosure is self powered, i.e. it has its own power switch? I suspect that if you compile USB support into the kernel your missing sda would reappear. Have you tried that?