Hello,
I have a Dell 8400 with a fresh Slackware 12.1 install.
I plugged in an external USB 320gig drive of unknown provenance installed in a "Nexstar 2" case. ( Unknown
because I don't remember the make/model of the drive, and I don't feel like taking the case apart
). It used to work in my old Slackware 10 system...
The drive is recognized by the EHCI driver, but is not assigned to an actual device.
------- snip from /var/log/messages -----------
Sep 17 09:10:00 tr4 kernel: usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
Sep 17 09:10:00 tr4 kernel: usb 1-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
------- endsnip --------------------------------
That's all I see in the messages WRT this device. Nothing about it being assigned to any usable drive.
And no error message, either.
Only /dev/sda and /dev/sdb exist, and those are the internal SATA drives.
So, where to start looking? What subsystem is supposed to make this USB device into a real disk drive?
Thanks
- Jerry Kaidor
