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Josh ChaitinPollak wrote: > > On Apr 25, 2006, at 4:15 PM, John Abreau wrote: >> >> The drive originally got recognized as /dev/sdb, and mounted with its >> label as /media/OneTouch. After the power outage, VMware had unwritten >> I/O waiting for the drive, and the drive instead got loaded as >> /dev/sdc and mounted as /media/OneTouch1. >> >> By the time I'm able to mount the drive, it's already past the point >> where it's decided the drive is /dev/sdc and not /dev/sdb. I was >> hoping there was some way to make it recognize that the drive is the >> same /dev/sdb it's waiting for, when I power up the drive. > > Are you plugging it in to the exact same USB port as before? I think > that might have an effect. I wasn't actually unplugging the usb drive at all; I was power-cycling it. I eventually gave up on it and just shut down the laptop entirely and did a cold boot. Windows came back up in VMware the same as it would have after a BSOD. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER jabr at jabber.org / YAHOO abreauj Email jabr at blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: jabr.vcf Type: text/x-vcard Size: 294 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20060425/457feae3/attachment.vcf>
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