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From: Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Externel drive should be /dev/sda1, but /dev/sda1 does not exist
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 16:06:26
Message-Id: 1262357766.26846.61.camel@camille.espersunited.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Externel drive should be /dev/sda1, but /dev/sda1 does not exist by Alan McKinnon
1 On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 16:12 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On Friday 01 January 2010 15:48:52 Michael Sullivan wrote:
3 > > Hello
4 > >
5 > > My wife's computer is pretty slow, so I've attached and old hard drive
6 > > into a hard drive enclosure and hooked it into her USB port for
7 > > additional swap space. It used to work. The swap space is supposed to
8 > > be /dev/sda1. The problem is that for some reason when I rebooted this
9 > > morning with a new kernel, /dev/sda does not exist anymore. I'm at a
10 > > lost as to what to do now. Here's dmesg, or at least the parts
11 > > portaining to usb devices:
12 >
13 > does it make a difference if you disable CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND, which can be done
14 > by reloading the module "usbcore" with the option "autosuspend=-1" ?
15 >
16
17 catherine dev # modprobe usbcore autosuspend=-1
18 catherine dev # ls /dev/sda1
19 ls: cannot access /dev/sda1: No such file or directory
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23 Did I do this right?