Andrew Wafula wrote: > Hello, > I have a 30GB USB HDD that I use to store data and software I dont use > so often so that I can free up my internal HDD. > I had managed to install RedHat 8.0 on my Sony VAIO GRZ660 with the > updated 2.19 kernel instead of the default kernel that comes with RH8. > The USB HDD was working quite fine though a lot of other stuff like > acpi, firewire and the Memory Stick were not working, but that wasnt a > big problem for me then. > I got a copy of Fedore C1 and since acpi was said to be working in > this version, I decided to upgrade. However, now I have acpi, firewire > and the sony memory stick working but I simply cannot get the system > to see the USB HDD. It shows up in /proc/bus/usb/devices but it is not > assigned a device /dev/sdb which I used to get before in RH8. Where > could the problem be? > Regards, > Andrew on my system it shows up as /dev/sda1. have you tried that one yet? alex.
