USB hard drive and CD-RW

[David Hacker]

If you don't see any reference to the drive  being recognized then you  
will have to load the USB mass storage module.  Try modprobe  
usb-storage from a root terminal and see if it is recognized then?

David C. Hacker, DVM
On Jun 28, 2004, at 9:21 AM, Jason Warm wrote:

> Well this is turning into a stumper....I have reviewed all those log
> files, and I can not see a reference to any hard drive other the  
> /dev/hda1
> (my main drive).  I know the drive works as I can see the partition  
> when I
> attach it to a Windoze box.  Does 2.4.22-g have the ability to see a  
> USB
> 2.0 hard drive?
>
> Jason
>
> <quote who="David Hacker">
>> It is in the message I just sent.
>> /var/log/messages is the file that contains all of the boot messages
>> and other output from the system.  You can open it in emacs or pico
>> from a console just type emacs /var/log/messages
>> You can also find the most recent information in /var/log/dmesg.
>>
>>
>> David C. Hacker, DVM
>> On Jun 27, 2004, at 8:36 PM, Jason Warm wrote:
>>
>>> In which exact log would I be able to find the device name?
>>>
>>> Jason
>>> David Hacker wrote:
>>>
>>>> You need to see what device they are assigned to first.  Hard drives
>>>> are usually /dev/hd? if they are ata and scsi hard drives, USB and
>>>> firewire hard drives are usually /dev/sd?.  You can look at
>>>> /var/log/messages to see the boot text and get the device from there
>>>> or you can use pdisk from a terminal and print out all partiton maps
>>>> and find out from there.  Once you find out what device and  
>>>> partition
>>>> number was assigned to the disk you want to mount you need to decide
>>>> where you want to mount it.  Usually they are mounted in /mnt.  You
>>>> can open a terminal and su to become root, then cd /mnt and mkdir  
>>>> usb
>>>> or mkdir macos or mkdir ??? for whatever you want the mount point to
>>>> be.  Then from the command line just type mount /dev/hd? /mnt/usb  
>>>> for
>>>> instance.  Once you are able to mount and access the disk you can  
>>>> add
>>>> it to your fstab file then you just have to type mount /mnt/usb or
>>>> whatever your mount point is.
>>>> Good Luck,
>> David C. Hacker, DVM
>>>> On Jun 27, 2004, at 6:48 PM, Jason Warm wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Could someone please give me some brief instructions on mounting  
>>>>> USB
>>>>> hard drive and CD-RW.
>>>>>
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