Problem accessing external USB HD from Gentoo

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 06:47:03AM -0500, 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?

Are you using usb-storage or the new (somewhat broken for now and
slower) usb media driver that arived in 2.6.8 or 2.6.9?

Lennart Sorensen
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