On 01/02/2010 06:35 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote:
On Fri, 2010-01-01 at 11:37 -0800, walt wrote:
On 01/01/2010 05:48 AM, Michael Sullivan wrote:
Hello
My wife's computer is pretty slow, so I've attached and old hard drive
into a hard drive enclosure and hooked it into her USB port for
additional swap space. It used to work. The swap space is supposed to
be /dev/sda1. The problem is that for some reason when I rebooted this
morning with a new kernel, /dev/sda does not exist anymore...
Hm. So the only thing you changed was the new kernel? Might help to
know why you built the new kernel. What problem were you solving by
doing it?
OK here goes. I built the new kernel because with the old one /dev/sda
didn't seem to exist when I know it should...
IIUC, you built the new kernel to see if it would fix the missing sda
problem, but it didn't fix it. Is this correct?
Because sda does show up when you hotplug the drive after bootup, the
problem seems to be timing rather than a misconfigured kernel.
I also compile USB support as modules, and yet my USB sticks show up
properly after bootup. I do use the 'hotplug' package and start it
at the 'default' runlevel (though I confess I really don't know if I
need it). Do you have that package, or did you?
I assume your drive enclosure is self powered, i.e. it has its own
power switch?
I suspect that if you compile USB support into the kernel your missing
sda would reappear. Have you tried that?
