I have a funny problem with my external 160 GB Backup usb hard disk (USB Mass Storage Device)
I have 12 partitions on my external hard drive.

SuSE is configured to recognize the external hard disk itself.

So far so good

But from my 12 Partitions only 5 are recognized: /dev/sda5 ... /dev/sda9

It seams that the "auto-mounter" has problems with sd<x>-Numbers higher than 9 (or in other words: mounting /dev/sda10 and higher fails somehow.)

Ideas?

Ummm, I don't think I can be of any help, but i'll try anyway...
Do all the sda[x] devides show up in the dev folder?
If so, have you tried mounting them manually. Are they all the same filesystem?

Yes, the /dev/sda10, /dev/sda11, ... exist
They have use all the same File System (fat32).

When I connect the drive I can See 5 drives with the "mount" command.

They are mounted as "usbfs".

Mounting by Hand to the File-System (eg. /mnt/external/backup1) works just for the five visible partitions.

Probably the /dev/sda10 (etc.) are no proper nodes.
I will have a look at "mknode" when I am home.

In the meantime: thanks for the answer.

pluging the usb external hd leads to the following messgaes (/var/log/messages):

The kernel only recognizes the first 9 partitions:


Var Log Messages
-----------------------
Jan 31 11:14:43 linux kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 2
Jan 31 11:14:43 linux kernel: usb 1-1: Product: USB TO IDE
Jan 31 11:14:44 linux /etc/hotplug/usb.agent[2934]: need a device for this command
Jan 31 11:14:46 linux kernel: SCSI subsystem initialized
Jan 31 11:14:46 linux kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Jan 31 11:14:46 linux kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Jan 31 11:14:46 linux kernel: Vendor: Maxtor 6 Model: Y160P0 Rev: 0811
Jan 31 11:14:46 linux kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Jan 31 11:14:46 linux kernel: USB Mass Storage device found at 2
Jan 31 11:14:46 linux kernel: drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
Jan 31 11:14:46 linux kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
Jan 31 11:14:46 linux kernel: SCSI device sda: 320173056 512-byte hdwr sectors (163929 MB)
Jan 31 11:14:46 linux kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Jan 31 11:14:47 linux /etc/hotplug/block.agent[3029]: new block device /block/sda
Jan 31 11:14:47 linux kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 >
Jan 31 11:14:47 linux kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Jan 31 11:14:47 linux kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
Jan 31 11:14:48 linux /etc/hotplug/block.agent[3108]: waiting for /var/lock/block.agent.lock, process 3$
Jan 31 11:14:48 linux /etc/hotplug/block.agent[3136]: waiting for /var/lock/block.agent.lock, process 3$
Jan 31 11:14:48 linux /etc/hotplug/block.agent[3123]: waiting for /var/lock/block.agent.lock, process 3$
Jan 31 11:14:48 linux /etc/hotplug/block.agent[3066]: waiting for /var/lock/block.agent.lock, process 3$
Jan 31 11:14:49 linux /etc/hotplug/block.agent[3080]: waiting for /var/lock/block.agent.lock, process 3$
Jan 31 11:14:49 linux /etc/hotplug/block.agent[3148]: waiting for /var/lock/block.agent.lock, process 3$
Jan 31 11:14:49 linux /etc/hotplug/block.agent[3062]: waiting for /var/lock/block.agent.lock, process 3$
Jan 31 11:14:49 linux /etc/hotplug/block.agent[3166]: waiting for /var/lock/block.agent.lock, process 3$
Jan 31 11:14:49 linux /etc/hotplug/block.agent[3099]: waiting for /var/lock/block.agent.lock, process 3$
Jan 31 11:14:51 linux kernel: hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Jan 31 11:14:51 linux kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Jan 31 11:14:51 linux /etc/hotplug/block.agent[3647]: grep: /sys/class/scsi_host/ide1/proc_name: No suc$
Jan 31 11:14:51 linux /etc/hotplug/block.agent[3647]: grep: /sys/class/scsi_host/ide1/proc_name: No suc$
Jan 31 11:14:51 linux kernel: st: Version 20040318, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
Jan 31 11:14:51 linux /etc/hotplug/block.agent[3647]: waiting for /var/lock/block.agent.lock, process 3$
Jan 31 11:14:51 linux kernel: BIOS EDD facility v0.13 2004-Mar-09, 1 devices found
Jan 31 11:14:53 linux /etc/hotplug/block.agent[3066]: new block device /block/sda/sda2
Jan 31 11:14:53 linux /etc/hotplug/block.agent[3080]: waiting for /var/lock/block.agent.lock, process 3$
Ja



mount leads to the following result:
=======================

/dev/fd0 on /media/floppy type subfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/sda2 on /media/usb-storage-odd-0x05e3-0x0702:0:0:0p2 type subfs (rw,noexec,
nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid)
/dev/sda5 on /media/usb-storage-odd-0x05e3-0x0702:0:0:0p5 type subfs (rw,noexec,
nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid)
/dev/sda7 on /media/usb-storage-odd-0x05e3-0x0702:0:0:0p7 type subfs (rw,noexec,
nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid)
/dev/sda3 on /media/usb-storage-odd-0x05e3-0x0702:0:0:0p3 type subfs (rw,noexec,
nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid)
/dev/sda1 on /media/usb-storage-odd-0x05e3-0x0702:0:0:0p1 type subfs (rw,noexec,
nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid)
/dev/sda9 on /media/usb-storage-odd-0x05e3-0x0702:0:0:0p9 type subfs (rw,noexec,
nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid)
/dev/sda8 on /media/usb-storage-odd-0x05e3-0x0702:0:0:0p8 type subfs (rw,noexec,
nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid)
/dev/sda4 on /media/usb-storage-odd-0x05e3-0x0702:0:0:0p4 type subfs (rw,noexec,
nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid)
/dev/sda6 on /media/usb-storage-odd-0x05e3-0x0702:0:0:0p6 type subfs (rw,noexec,
nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid)



any ideas?