External eSATA drive doesn't fdisk properly ? F8 eSATA hotplug ?
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Tue Sep 30 01:17:14 UTC 2008
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
>> So why does hwbrowser stall with the external drive ?
>>
>
> Don't know, maybe its broken? Did you try to initiate a (re)scan of
> the applicable bus manually and then enumerate it with fdisk?
>
>
I suppose the first thing I would do is to boot the system without the
external disk connected. Then, I would "tail -f /var/messages" while I
plugged in the drive and see what the system is saying.... But that is
just what I would do.
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