[Quantian-general] Detect USB harddisk

[David Hadley]

The one-liner!!! (For me, at least)

modprobe echi-hcd

I believe this has something to do with USB 2.0 drivers and is not
restricted to Quantian.

Not that it really matters, but I had done: modprobe \* , which should
have loaded all modules but obviously didn't.

Once I'd run this, the device showed up in /mnt/

Thanks for your assistance!
Dave


David Hadley
Division of Community Health Sciences
St George's, University of London
Tel: 020 8725 1312


Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 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
>