Problem accessing external USB HD from Gentoo

[Madison Kelly]

Walter Dnes wrote:
>   I bought a brand new, shiny (would you believe brushed aluminum) 250
> gig external USB drive last week.  Christmas hasn't come as early as I
> expected.  If I boot from the Gentoo minimal 2004.3 distro CD, I can
> fdisk, format, mount it as /dev/sda1, and use the drive as I'm supposed
> to.  However, I can't seem to get my custom kernel to recognize it.
> 
>   I don't think it's a udev issue.  I've booted into devfs, and get the
> same lack of response.  I've got what I think are the necessary items in
> "make menuconfig" for SCSI and USB.  "fdisk /dev/uba" shows a partition
> that is 34,001 cylinders, rather than 34,000.  Mounting /dev/uba gives a
> directory with some metadata, just like /proc/sys/bus/usb.  So far, no
> luck on the Gentoo list.  Any ideas here?
> 

Hi Walter,

   I am drawing a blank at the moment but I had a very similar problem 
before. What I can tell you is that in my case it was an option related 
to USB that I was missing. It wasn't obvious and it was a head-slap when 
I figured it out. I'll keep rumaging through my memories for what it was 
exactly and post if I remember but in the meantime hopefully that will 
help you a bit.

Madison
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