hardy, and usb drives, does anyone have one that works?

[Bart Silverstrim]

steve wrote:
> hi sorry long to respond, opening a new store been on the road alot, not
> home to do anything.
> 
> no, its not a new computer by any means. upgraded compaq desktop , maybe
> 5 yrs old, just use it for a mythbox in the living room.  The usb drives
> I plug in to 2 of the 4 usb ports at the rear. (known working)  no usb
> hub in use here.  I can unplug the usb drive from the desktop and into
> one of 2 laptops one with suse and the other with xp/hardy and it works
> fine. auto mount, icon on the desktop, etc.  Tried it with a mythbuntu
> hardy cd, and it works ok there too. I hate to re install this damn
> thing, but I need to use these drives eventually, 80 gig internal just
> doesnt cut it with myth. I have zoneminder and myth working perfect now,
> I think you all know how long that takes!!
> 
> I did just think of something though, I also have 4 usb webcams plugged
> into the box as well (zm), that shouldnt matter right?

It's possible that's affecting it. Depends on power draw or possible 
problems on the USB bus. But you said the liveboot sees the drives on 
that computer.

I'd try shutting the machine down, disconnect ALL USB devices from it 
(unless you're using a USB keyboard/mouse), boot it up, and try the 
drives and see if they pop up.

Other things to check out would be things like lsusb's output (to see if 
they're seen on the USB bus once connected), and grep through the logs 
to see what the logs say about connected USB devices.

The fact that it's working with the liveboot CD on that machine would 
say that something else in your configuration is interfering with the 
recognition of the drives...