external USB harddrive not recognized when present at boot

2008-09-25 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, i am encountering an interesting (and annoying) problem. when the external USB harddrive is plugged in during boot (i have dell d430 with d/port port replicator - the drive is connected to one of the usb ports on the d/port), i can hear it spinning in the very beginning, but then it

Re: external USB harddrive not recognized when present at boot

2008-09-25 Thread Clifford W. Hansen
On Thursday 25 September 2008 09:34:28 Lubos Vrbka wrote: hi guys, i am encountering an interesting (and annoying) problem. when the external USB harddrive is plugged in during boot (i have dell d430 with d/port port replicator - the drive is connected to one of the usb ports on the d/port),

Re: external USB harddrive not recognized when present at boot

2008-09-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 09/25/08 02:34, Lubos Vrbka wrote: hi guys, i am encountering an interesting (and annoying) problem. when the external USB harddrive is plugged in during boot (i have dell d430 with d/port port replicator - the drive is connected to one of the usb ports on the d/port), i can hear it

Re: external USB harddrive not recognized when present at boot

2008-09-25 Thread Lubos Vrbka
My first thought would be to try without the D/Port, as in connect the drive to one of the machines USB ports and see if that works... well, in this case it works. the drive is power-cycled twice during the boot process and udev takes care of it. I have never used a D/Port, so I'm shooting in

Re: external USB harddrive not recognized when present at boot

2008-09-25 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/25/08 02:34, Lubos Vrbka wrote: hi guys, i am encountering an interesting (and annoying) problem. when the external USB harddrive is plugged in during boot (i have dell d430 with d/port port replicator - the drive is connected to one of the usb ports on the d/port),

Re: external USB harddrive not recognized when present at boot

2008-09-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 09/25/08 03:29, Lubos Vrbka wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] But then, I've got an external Firewire drive, and it's recognized at boot, as are all my thumb drives, so maybe your product doesn't follow some spec well enough, and new kernels are more strict than older kernels. would

Re: external USB harddrive not recognized when present at boot

2008-09-25 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/25/08 03:29, Lubos Vrbka wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] But then, I've got an external Firewire drive, and it's recognized at boot, as are all my thumb drives, so maybe your product doesn't follow some spec well enough, and new kernels are more strict than older

Re: external USB harddrive not recognized when present at boot

2008-09-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 09/25/08 08:24, Lubos Vrbka wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/25/08 03:29, Lubos Vrbka wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] But then, I've got an external Firewire drive, and it's recognized at boot, as are all my thumb drives, so maybe your product doesn't follow some spec well enough, and

Re: external USB harddrive not recognized when present at boot

2008-09-25 Thread owens
Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: external USB harddrive not recognized when present at boot Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:02:51 -0500 On 09/25/08 08:24, Lubos Vrbka wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/25/08 03:29, Lubos Vrbka wrote