Problem accessing external USB HD from Gentoo

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 11:58:45PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   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.

Well for usb-storage you need scsi disk support enabled, and the
usb-storage driver, after which your usb disks should appear as
/dev/sdXY where X is a b c and so and and Y is a partition number (if
the driver has partitions).

/dev/uba is only for the new (currently broken it seems) usb-storage
system driver.

Lennart Sorensen
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