[geeks] DL380 does not see external USB drive

[Lionel Peterson]

On Aug 18, 2009, at 5:22 PM, gsm at mendelson.com wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 03:30:25PM -0400, Ido Dubrawsky wrote:
>> I've got a DL380 running Ubuntu Server 8.04 which does not see any
>> external USB drives.  I'm trying to attach a 250GB external USB  
>> drive to
>> backup the VMware images in my lab and when I plug the drive into the
>> USB ports in the back I see the following message in dmesg:
>
> That's because device support in Ubuntu, to be polite, sucks.
>
> After having so many things I could not deal with be broken, security
> fixes people forgot to back port, to 8.04 etc, I made the mistake of
> going to 9.04 right after it came out.
>
> It seems that the people who tested it did not have IDE optical  
> drives,
> or netbooks. It never worked with IDE optical drives at all, and it
> would not boot on a netbook.

Their release testing methodology is 'thin'... I looked at the release  
install testing, and it was essentially "did it boot"?

Of course, each piece is tested by itself to some degree, buf the  
whole release gets pretty short-shrift.

Lionel