Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Donn Washburn wrote:
> Hey Group;
>
> I have commented earlier about the lack of SuSE9.3 and SuSE 10
> not being able to detect a USB drive unless it was ON for a
> longer period of time.  Lets say 1 hour.
>
> Well to that end- I have tracked out the problem.  It appears
> to be a drive problem with the HD bios.
>
> Using " /sbin/getcfg -d . -f hwcfg- -- /dev/sda "
> a list of HWD config information is reported.  Missing is
> "HWD_VENDORID=@h" which fails and seems to be the problem.
> When it works "HWD_VENDORID=WDC WD15".
>
> " /sbin/getcfg -d . -f hwcfg- -- /dev/sda1 " offered no answer.
>
> I have another drive which is also a WD drive but newer
>
> By the way - " Rita "
> We got very little wind and .25 inches of rain.
> Thanks to all for the "Good Luck" wishes.

Don't know, possibly just with WD, on 9.3 (Card Reader-FAT16) and 9.3 
x86_64 (Maxtor 120G) I'm not seeing any problems with getcfg, 
getcfg-device or getcfg-all-info, also I can move these drives around 
and have them available for mounting which I choose to do manually.
Regards
Sid.
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