[Wlug] Missing /dev files

[Aaron Haviland]

vze284qe at verizon.net wrote, on Mar 31, 2008 at 19:27 EDT:
> So I shut down the computer - power off, unplug, remove battery (it's a
> laptop) and waited a minute. I reinstalled the battery, plugged it in
> and booted up the usual kernel, et voila...the /dev/sdb* files
> reappeared!!  All looks good!  Even Linux has some strangeness I guess. 
> 
> I don't know what caused this in the first place...transient lightning
> bolts?  spurrious darktrons?

I've got a flash card reader that, if it's got a card in it when the computer is
turned on, will forever fail to recognise that it's got media.

However, if I insert the media after Linux has recognised and reset the device, all is good.

Perhaps you had a situation like that? I blame BIOS weirdness, really.

-- 
Aaron Haviland
34 Wayne Ave, Dudley, MA                      
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