[Quantian-general] Detect USB harddisk

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 18 May 2007 at 13:51, David Hadley wrote:
| Thanks for the tip, Anne, but I'm not sure what you mean by this as I
| haven't done that before - would you be able to spell out for me how I
| add something to proc/partitions?
| 
| As I mentioned, I believe the problem can be solved with one statement
| on the command line, something like modprobe usb-ohci. I'd appreciate it
| if anyone could shed light on that method too.

I think it also matter whether you use the 2.4 kernel or the 2.6 kernel, as
the drivers changed names. Under 2.4, they were called, as I recall, usb-uhci
and usb-ohci. Under 2.6, I think they are called uhci-hcd and ohci-hcd -- but
that kernel should also be substantially better at detecting the disk.
Knoppix tends to do that automagically.

Try perusing the Knoppix support sited, but keep in mind that Quantian is
based on a now-dated Knoppix variant.

Hope this helps, Dirk

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