Problem accessing external USB HD from Gentoo

[Walter Dnes]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 09:20:36AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote

> Well for usb-storage you need scsi disk support enabled, and the

  Done... but no SCSI drives appear.

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

  I finally got it working in "coldplug" mode (i.e. drive connected and
turned on at bootup) with the following incantation.  I've turned it
into a script to save me some typing.

#!/bin/bash
mount /dev/uba1 /mnt/usbdrive/

  But no luck with hotplugging.

  PS, I went and rebuilt my kernel without any SCSI support at all, and
the USB drive still works.  BTW it's a combo USB/Firewire.  I'm going to
have to buy myself a PCI card with a firewire hub.

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