I have a 1TB USB 3.0 verbatim portable drive. When I connect it to my IBM Thinkpad R500 OpenSUSE 11.4 does not detect the drive as being plugged in. All my USB 2 devices work fine. Do I need to configure something to get this drive going?
I use a USB 3.0 drive mounted from my fstab file and it works fine. There was a problem that came up with USB drives being recognized when plugged in after boot. Here is a link for that issue:
Might want to look at this, just to make sure it is not the same problem.
Automount of external NTFS USB drive fails when using the Device Notifier
I also ran into one person that was trying to boot froim a USB 3.0 drive, not normally possible due to BIOS limitations, but this procedure does not hurt to be applied:
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Boot from a LiveCD AFTER you have installed openSUSE properly, but where it does not boot into openSUSE properly.
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Open Up a terminal session and execute the following commands:
mkdir /mnt/sysimage
mount /dev/sdXY /mnt/sysimage
chroot /mnt/sysimage
NOTE: X=disk name as in a, b, c or d AND Y=1, 2, 3 or 4 as to partition number. Ex:sdb1 where you have installed the main or root openSUSE partition called /
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Use VI or other text editor (Look up the VI editor command first) and edit the file /etc/sysconfig/kernel (or jump here and edit the file as root with any editor when not trying to boot from a USB 3.0 drive)
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In the text file called kernel look for the line that starts with INITRD_MODULES=" and add the name xhci-hcd to the line and save the file. For instances, here is what my line says with this option added:
INITRD_MODULES=“xhci-hcd pata_jmicron ata_generic thermal processor fan”
Your line will likely be different than mine.
- Issue the following terminal commands after you have edited the above text file called kernel located in the folder /etc/sysconfig/
mount -tproc none /proc
mkinitrd
This should create a new image in the /boot folder that might be named: initrd-2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop and is being loaded in your /boot/grub/menu.lst file.
If you are NOT trying to boot from a USB 3.0 drive, but would like to add the xhci-hcd to Initrd, then go straight to item #3 in a normal running session of openSUSE.
Thank You,