External drives not detected at boot time?

[Michel Salim]

2007/2/17, nodata <lsof at nodata.co.uk>:
> Am Samstag, den 17.02.2007, 11:41 -0500 schrieb Michel Salim:
> > In Rawhide, USB external drives are not detected if they are plugged
> > in at boot time,
>
> What happens if you plug it in after boot?
>
Same as if I power-cycle the drive (easier than unplugging and
re-plugging the USB cable): it's detected as a USB mass-storage
device, is then scanned for partititions and the device nodes created.

> > requiring power-cycling before the required device
> > nodes are created in /dev and gnome-volume-manager works.
>
> Power cycling of the external drive or the PC?
>
The external drive

For some reason it seems that when the USB modules are first loaded,
mass storage devices are not properly initialized (my USB mouse, on
the other hand, works just fine)

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