https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=234502 gdoig@pcug.org.au changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED Info Provider|gdoig@pcug.org.au | ------- Comment #16 from gdoig@pcug.org.au 2007-06-02 08:27 MST ------- Please close this as it is now resolved. Thankyou. I ended up buying another brand of external hdd enclosure. Nexstar3. http://www.vantecusa.com/p_nst360u2.html It did the job nicely, The drive I tried to use earlier I put in this one works. OpenSUSE 10.2 recognises and uses the drive attached. Here is the last part of the logs. Jun 2 23:12:30 zen kernel: usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 Jun 2 23:12:30 zen kernel: usb 2-1: new device found, idVendor=04fc, idProduct=0c25 Jun 2 23:12:30 zen kernel: usb 2-1: new device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1 Jun 2 23:12:30 zen kernel: usb 2-1: Product: USB to Serial-ATA bridge Jun 2 23:12:30 zen kernel: usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Sunplus Technology Inc. Jun 2 23:12:30 zen kernel: usb 2-1: SerialNumber: ST3160023A 3MT08DQE Jun 2 23:12:30 zen kernel: usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Jun 2 23:12:30 zen kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Jun 2 23:12:30 zen kernel: usb-storage: device found at 6 Jun 2 23:12:30 zen kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Jun 2 23:12:31 zen kernel: scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access ST316002 3AS PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 Jun 2 23:12:31 zen kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors (160042 MB) Jun 2 23:12:31 zen kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off Jun 2 23:12:31 zen kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 38 00 00 00 Jun 2 23:12:31 zen kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through Jun 2 23:12:31 zen kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors (160042 MB) Jun 2 23:12:31 zen kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off Jun 2 23:12:31 zen kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 38 00 00 00 Jun 2 23:12:31 zen kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through Jun 2 23:12:31 zen kernel: sdb: sdb1 Jun 2 23:12:31 zen kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk Jun 2 23:12:31 zen kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 Jun 2 23:12:31 zen kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete Jun 2 23:13:17 zen kernel: st: Version 20070203, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256 Jun 2 23:19:09 zen kernel: ReiserFS: sdb1: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal Jun 2 23:19:09 zen kernel: ReiserFS: sdb1: using ordered data mode Jun 2 23:19:09 zen kernel: reiserfs: using flush barriers Jun 2 23:19:09 zen kernel: ReiserFS: sdb1: journal params: device sdb1, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30 Jun 2 23:19:09 zen kernel: ReiserFS: sdb1: checking transaction log (sdb1) Jun 2 23:19:10 zen kernel: ReiserFS: sdb1: Using r5 hash to sort names Jun 2 23:19:10 zen kernel: ReiserFS: sdb1: warning: Created .reiserfs_priv on sdb1 - reserved for xattr storage. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.