Re: [gentoo-user] Dual USB HDD enclosure shows only a single disk (NexStar MX)

On Montag, 17. Dezember 2007, felix@×××××××.com wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 02:00:32PM +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> > don't ask me, I only work here... but I have a "multimedia unit" that
> > has 4 card reader slots, a HD, an LCD and USB2.  Only /dev/sda shows up
> > if I don't set the multiple luns option, and /dev/sda isn't the HD!
> > It's the (usually empty) CFCARD slot!
> >
> > I don't know why it isn't on by default in the livecd either...
>
> I have several of those USB multislot multimedia readers, and none of
> them show any rpesence in /dev except for those slots which have a
> card in them.  Wel, I haven't checked them in a while.  But for
> instance, one of them has four slots, I think they show up normally on
> my system as sd[fghi], nad the one I use th emost is sdh.  I put the
> card in, then plug in the USB cable, and sdh shows up but not sd[fgi].
>
> Last time I cheked, it also confused the heckout of the USB system if
> I pulled the card out of the slot before yanking out the USB cable.
>
> I will try the LUN flag but not right now, I don't want to reboot now.
>
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and I have a '30in1' card reader that needs the multi-lun flag to find 
anything at all.

usb is just 'some kind of scsi' for the kernel.

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