External USB hard disk detection

[Chong Yu Meng]

Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:

> Chong Yu Meng wrote:
>
>
>> Here's my problem:
>>
>> 1. Whereas before, on my Thinkpad, the external hard disk was easily 
>> detected on boot, but on this ASUS notebook, it is not. I have to 
>> restart the haldaemon and/or re-plug my external hard disk in for it 
>> to be detected.
>
>
> You didn't tell us if your Thinkpad had FC4 as well, so your problem 
> might be hardware or software related. Perhaps it is this bug:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=163057
>
>
Thanks for your reply, Klaus! I've since found that it could be 
hardware-related. I recently changed the casing for my external hard 
disk, and when I tried plugging it into a Windows system, I had the same 
problem -- no autodetection. I had to unplug and plug it in several 
times in order to get it recognized.


>> 2. The hard disk has 2 partitions on it, one VFAT (FAT32) partition 
>> and a EXT3 partition. The VFAT partition mounts fine, but the EXT3 
>> partition mounts as read-only for normal users, writable by root user 
>> only
>> 3. I tried setting the umask to 000 for the EXT3 partition, but it 
>> does not seem to change anything. Currently, I created a directory 
>> that is world-writable in the EXT3 partition and just dump my stuff 
>> inside there.
>
>
> Search bugzilla.redhat.com for probs 2 & 3?
> Klaus

I've given up on that external hard disk. Think I'll stick to my Zip 
drive for the moment. Thanks for pointers!

Regards,
pascal chong