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

[Ed Greshko]

Joseph L. Casale wrote:
>> So why does hwbrowser stall with the external drive ?
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>
> 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.

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