re-detecting USB flash drive

eddie

1 Oct 2004 1 Oct '04

07:34

After removing my flash drive, if I reinsert it my system fails to find it. Is there a way of getting my system to rescan the USB ports, without doing a reboot? TIA Eddie

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Jonathan Brooks

1 Oct 1 Oct

09:03

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You could try unmounting it (as root): umount /media/usb-blah-blah-blah I think hotplug would then redetect it when you plug it back in. You definitely shouldn't have to reboot. Jon -- Jonathan Brooks (Ph.D.) Dept of Human Anatomy & Genetics & FMRIB Centre, University of Oxford tel/fax: 01865-282675 http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~jon -----Original Message----- From: eddie [mailto:eddie.howson@dsl.pipex.com] Sent: 01 October 2004 08:34 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] re-detecting USB flash drive After removing my flash drive, if I reinsert it my system fails to find it. Is there a way of getting my system to rescan the USB ports, without doing a reboot? TIA Eddie -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com

Joe Morris (NTM)

11:10

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eddie wrote:

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After removing my flash drive, if I reinsert it my system fails to find it. Is there a way of getting my system to rescan the USB ports, without doing a reboot?

hwscan --usb -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871

Patrick Shanahan

13:08

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* eddie [10-01-04 02:35]:

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After removing my flash drive, if I reinsert it my system fails to find it. Is there a way of getting my system to rescan the USB ports, without doing a reboot?

as root: rchotplug restart -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos

eddie

16:19

New subject: [SLE] re-detecting USB flash drive

On Friday 01 October 2004 14:08, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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* eddie [10-01-04 02:35]:

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After removing my flash drive, if I reinsert it my system fails to find it. Is there a way of getting my system to rescan the USB ports, without doing a reboot?

as root: rchotplug restart

Tried rchotplug restart but doesn't help.

Patrick Shanahan

20:37

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* eddie [10-01-04 11:19]:

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Tried rchotplug restart but doesn't help.

If you have the flash drive plugged into an extension cable, unplug the *cable* from the computer, wait ~2 minutes and replug it with the flash drive connected. Wait ~1 minute and try again. If it's still not there, try 'rchotplug' again. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos

Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)

9 Oct 9 Oct

19:31

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eddie wrote: Hi Eddie,

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After removing my flash drive, if I reinsert it my system fails to find it. Is there a way of getting my system to rescan the USB ports, without doing a reboot? What version of SuSE are you using. I know on my 9.0 Pro all I have to do is plug or unplug and I can access sda1 and browse its contents, after of course mounting it with/via Konqueror.

-- The Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 Licenced Windows user ========================================================================

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eddie
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