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chilebiker

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From: Zurich, Switzerland

Registered: 2006-07-18

Posts: 161

USB-HD not being mounted @bootup

After a new install with the March ISO just for fun my external USB-HD is not being mounted anymore during boot. The error message I get is: mount: special device /dev/sdbxx does not exist. Once logged in I can mount it as root with "mount -a" and everything is fine. So it doesn't seem to be a fstab problem.

In errors.log i found: usb 1-1: can't set config #1, error -71, google didn't help.

Any ideas?

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bgc1954

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From: Edmonton, AB, Canada

Registered: 2006-03-14

Posts: 1,160

Re: USB-HD not being mounted @bootup

Do you have a /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb vfat noauto,users 0 0 line in your /etc/fstab?  I couldn't mount a usb card reader the other day until I added the line to /etc/fstab and I don't remember having to do that before??

Last edited by bgc1954 (2008-04-27 17:22:06)

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chilebiker

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From: Zurich, Switzerland

Registered: 2006-07-18

Posts: 161

Re: USB-HD not being mounted @bootup

My fstab, but that's not the problem (I think), as the same configuration used to work before:

/dev/sdb2              /mnt/sdb2  ext3     defaults                0      0
/dev/sdb3              /mnt/sdb3  ext3     defaults                0      0
/dev/sdb5              /mnt/sdb5  ext3     defaults                0      0
/dev/sdb6              /mnt/sdb6  vfat  rw,user,uid=beat,umask=077 0      0

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pofkezas

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From: Brooklyn, NY

Registered: 2006-05-30

Posts: 12

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Re: USB-HD not being mounted @bootup

Same problem here. mount: special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist. Anyone?

5motion

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Registered: 2008-06-21

Posts: 8

Re: USB-HD not being mounted @bootup

same problem here

MilosC

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-06-04

Posts: 79

Re: USB-HD not being mounted @bootup

usb 1-1: can't set config #1, error -71

I get this error sometimes when trying to connect my Nokia (mass storage) to laptop. I'm not sure, but it seems there's some sort of interference between USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 driver.

Last edited by MilosC (2008-06-24 16:56:57)

Kelhim

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Registered: 2008-06-16

Posts: 5

Re: USB-HD not being mounted @bootup

Same problem here. mount: special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist. Anyone?

Not really a solution, but somewhere here on the forums I read of this workaround: add

mount -a

to your rc.local. I have the same problem with my USB-Device, but this does the job ...

aka_hans

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Registered: 2008-03-13

Posts: 17

Re: USB-HD not being mounted @bootup

Same here, it seems like Arch mounts everything before it has properly recognized the external hard drive. I used the rc.local workaround, but it doesn't always do the job (lately it never does the job). A tad annoying.

5motion

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Registered: 2008-06-21

Posts: 8

Re: USB-HD not being mounted @bootup

Hi all

I found a reason, I dont use udev autoloading modules, I load modules manually, Its more faster but there is a problem when udev autoloading is on, udev load usb_storage and ehci_hcd modules and then waiting to settle device, when I dont use udev, modules are loaded manually but there isnt waiting to settle device, after loading modules there is a some delay to creating device in /dev which causes a problem with mounting device during boot, when I use udev autoloading device is mounted properly during boot, there is a two way, I put usb hook and modules ehci_hci and usb_storage in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and made a new initrd and other way is to put mount /...path or mount -a to /etc/rc.local

sorry for my ugly english

Best regards
5motion