JohnSwenson;568629 Wrote: > I've never seen this with a drive that really only had one partition. I > HAVE seen weird things with the drives that have things like virtual > CDs. These drives have stuff on them specifically designed to fool > windows into thinking there are more than one drive. When you put them > on linux (such as the Touch) it can get very confused, thinking there > are more drives than there really are. (The sde means it thinks there > are 5 drives) attached over USB. > > My guess is that this is what is happening. I'm not exactly sure of the > best way to deal with this. > > What seems strange is that one time it saw it at sde, another time as > sda. Did you do anything to the drive in the intervening time? Plug it > into another computer, change sleep settings etc? > > John S.
I forgot to mention the disk is attached to an USB/SATA reader, so it may look like the device is providing few disks. But only 1 HD is present in the device (no other memory cards inthere). So it is the reason for seeing it sometimes as sde1. "Unitek SATA HDD Docking Station with Card Reader/Writer + Hub" http://www.sulit.com.ph/index.php/view+classifieds/id/1535771/Unitek+SATA+HDD+Docking+Station+with+Card+Reader/Writer+%2B+Hub+(ESata+%26+One+Touch+Back-Up) And also about 2nd point: unfortunately simple power failure might occur, or just an usb cable might just disconnect.. :( And I've just made a repeatable test: I disconnected USB without properly ejecting. Connected it. Was recognized as sde1. Did that again. Was recognized as sdf1.. (I also got some kernel/fat/directory read panic in the logs in the meantime - sounds not a good way for hd to be unplugged) Here's some statistics.. # strings squeezebox.db |grep sde1|wc 5263 5330 536292 # strings squeezebox.db |grep sda1|wc 13409 37714 1447827 My point is: I don't really care how the system discovers the HD and to what name assigns it. I just hope this internal cache/squeezebox.db is not corrupted by as it contains different pathnames (once starting with "sda1", and the other time with "sde1") Until SBT plays the music I'm satisfied.. So it's reindexing again I think... I've to reboot :( # strings squeezebox.db |grep turner|grep Inferno|grep -v flacJ file:///media/sda1/flac/tina_turner/whats_love_got_to_do_with_it/03.Disco%20Inferno.flac file:///media/sde1/flac/tina_turner/whats_love_got_to_do_with_it/03.Disco%20Inferno.flac PS. Are any SBT developers reading it? Is it worth to discuss the issue here at all? -- nthx ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nthx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=39815 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81119 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
