Geoffrey Leach wrote: > I have an external SATA drive that's usually powered off. It has two > ext3 partitions, FWIW. I find that mount does not recognize the devices > (/dev/sdb1, /dev/sdb2) unless the drive is powered on before booting. > > I expect that this is something that HAL should attend to. Any > suggestions as to what's wrong? HAL works fine with other hot mounted > devices. > Udev is responsible to create the /dev entries for the drive. You could have HAL mount the partitions once udev is done. I don't know if the SATA drivers are set up for it, but you can try doing a rescan of the SCSI bus. (SATA is handled as SCSI.) There is an old script - http://www.linux1394.org/scripts/rescan-scsi-bus.sh that may do the trick. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
