Problem accessing external USB HD from Gentoo

[Walter Dnes]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 11:04:51AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote

> 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?

  It's "usb-storage".  Gentoo masks out "unstable" modules with the
"~x86" flag, which I haven't enabled, so I should be able to build it in
the first place.  And oh yeah, I'm on the trailing edge, with an older
machine.  The "advanced options" BIOS setting loads USB 1.1
functionality, rather than the default 1.0.  1.1 is the lowest that
Gentoo appears to support.  Even the distro CD won't find the drive if I
drop USB functionality to 1.0.

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