usb drive reconnect after power interruption

[jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)]

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.

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