On Sun, 28 Feb 2010, Toerless Eckert wrote: > I do have problems with external USB disks, that pretty much lead > to them being useless because linux does not recognize them during > booting or usb_storage module loading. The only way to recognize > them is to plug them into the running system. > > Drives are Western Digital Elements, 2TB. Kernel is 2.6.29 or 2.6.31 > > not fully regocnized by linux (tried 2.6.29/2.6.31) when i boot. This has nothing to do with USB; it is a SCSI matter. The problem is that disk probing fails if the drives are spun down when the probe begins. You should post your questions on the linux-scsi mailing list. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
