Re: [SLE] can no longer see usb drive

From: Ken Schneider (suse-list_at_bout-tyme.net)
Date: 04/30/05

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Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 09:02:45 -0400

    On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 08:44 -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
    > On 4/29/05, Colin Carter wrote:
    > >
    > When troubleshooting any of the usb automount stuff, I look at the end
    > of the dmesg output.
    >
    > dmesg displays a kernel memory buffer full of logs.
    >
    > I would plug in your device, wait 60 seconds, then type "dmesg".
    >
    > In the last 10 lines or so, you should see some USB / SCSI recognition stuff.
    >
    > With 9.2 I often see the device recognized as /dev/sda, but nothing
    > shows up in /media.
    >
    > I just manually mount the device "mount /dev/sda /mnt" or whatever
    > mount point you like.

    /dev/sda is not always correct. If the device has partitions on it that
    are recognized you should use /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda2 etc. Use the
    partition that you see in dmesg.

    >
    > My inference is that the automount logic in 9.2 is nice feature-wise,
    > but unreliable. 

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Ken Schneider
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