Icons for hard disk partitions

[johnpaul013]

If I boot puppy 5.2, with 2 hard disks installed then I cannot see any flash drives.
Hard Disk 1:
/dev/sda1
/dev/sda2
/dev/sda4
/dev/sda3 is swap and does not show up as expected.
/dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb2
/dev/sdb4
/dev/sdb3 is swap and does not show up as expected.
Flash drives at this point should show up as /dev/sdc1...etc
This does not happen.
But if I boot with only 1 hard disk then I do see the flash drives when I plug them in.
The icon sr0 does correctly show up.
Also, if I boot puppy from a flash stick then I do not see the flash drive with puppy on it.
Puppy should show as /dev/sdc1 but does not show at all.
Also interestingly in the /dev directory there are entries for /dev/sdc3 - /dev/sdc15 BUT NO
/dev/sdc1 or /dev/sdc2.
Also as a side note: can you include the program "partimage" in your future releases.
Thanks.

[Luluc]

I don't have two hard disks to test the problem described above, but I have a different problem that may be related or not.

* Right-click a partition and select "Run Desktop Drive Icon Manager
* Click the Icon Handler tab
* Select the second option, "Tick for auto-launch handler when media plugged in"
* Click OK
* Restart X

External media such as a pen drive is then supposed to be detected, mounted and opened in the file manager automatically. Instead, pmount pops up for a second and closes, pops up for a second and closes, pops up for a second and closes, pops up for a second and closes... forever!

Anyobody can confirm?

[bigpup]

For both of you.
How are you running Puppy?
Live CD, frugal or full install?
Was it an upgrade?

[Speedyluck]

Can be a problem with supply, with 2 hd it has not amper on 5v usb for external drive, have you connect others devices on others usb?
try with only one device (disconnect usb mouse and keyboard).

[Karl Godt]

The problem might be udevd which is dynamically handling also the device nodes .

of course the usb drivers have to be loaded, which is done by rc.sysinit using udev , which had many times corrupted files at /dev/.udev , which resulted in not loading several drivers , especially [e-o-u]hci_hcd .

you can try runnig

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partprobe

to refresh the device nodes
or do it manually using

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ls -l

and

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mknod /dev/sda1 b 8 1

attached example how to create missing blockdevices