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On 01/02/2010 06:35 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 11:37 -0800, walt wrote: |
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>> On 01/01/2010 05:48 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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>>> Hello |
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>>> My wife's computer is pretty slow, so I've attached and old hard drive |
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>>> into a hard drive enclosure and hooked it into her USB port for |
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>>> additional swap space. It used to work. The swap space is supposed to |
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>>> be /dev/sda1. The problem is that for some reason when I rebooted this |
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>>> morning with a new kernel, /dev/sda does not exist anymore... |
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>> Hm. So the only thing you changed was the new kernel? Might help to |
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>> know why you built the new kernel. What problem were you solving by |
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>> doing it? |
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> OK here goes. I built the new kernel because with the old one /dev/sda |
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> didn't seem to exist when I know it should... |
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IIUC, you built the new kernel to see if it would fix the missing sda |
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problem, but it didn't fix it. Is this correct? |
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Because sda does show up when you hotplug the drive after bootup, the |
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problem seems to be timing rather than a misconfigured kernel. |
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I also compile USB support as modules, and yet my USB sticks show up |
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properly after bootup. I do use the 'hotplug' package and start it |
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at the 'default' runlevel (though I confess I really don't know if I |
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need it). Do you have that package, or did you? |
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I assume your drive enclosure is self powered, i.e. it has its own |
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power switch? |
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I suspect that if you compile USB support into the kernel your missing |
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sda would reappear. Have you tried that? |
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