Re: External eSATA drive doesn't fdisk properly ? F8 eSATA hotplug ?

[Ed Greshko <Ed Greshko greshko com>]

Ed Greshko wrote:
> Joseph L. Casale wrote:
>   
>>> So why does hwbrowser stall with the external drive ?
>>>     
>>>       
>> Don't know, maybe its broken? Did you try to initiate a (re)scan of
>> the applicable bus manually and then enumerate it with fdisk?
>>
>>   
>>     
> I suppose the first thing I would do is to boot the system without the
> external disk connected.  Then, I would "tail -f /var/messages" while I
> plugged in the drive and see what the system is saying....  But that is
> just what I would do.
>
>   
Of course that is /var/log/messages....  :-)

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