USB hard drive and CD-RW
David Hacker
yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Mon Jun 28 10:04:01 2004
Is the disk you want to mount formated for linux or mac? If mac is it
HFS or HFS+. Either of the mac formats take a module to load. You
have to have the 2.4.22-2g kernel for HFS+.
David C. Hacker, DVM
On Jun 28, 2004, at 11:17 AM, Jason Warm wrote:
> This is what I get when I run /sbin/lsmod:
> Module Size Used by Not tainted
> usbnet 16232 0 (unused)
> usb-storage 70340 0 (unused)
> vfat 13376 0 (autoclean)
> fat 39420 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
> appletalk 28100 12 (autoclean)
> dmasound_pmac 76096 0 (autoclean)
> dmasound_core 15488 0 (autoclean) [dmasound_pmac]
> i2c-core 19968 0 (autoclean) [dmasound_pmac]
> soundcore 6920 3 (autoclean) [dmasound_core]
> autofs 13376 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> ehci-hcd 22928 0 (unused)
> ohci1394 31888 0 (unused)
> ieee1394 67456 0 [ohci1394]
> ds 9984 2
> yenta_socket 14640 2
> pcmcia_core 57328 0 [ds yenta_socket]
> iptable_filter 2544 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> ip_tables 17328 1 [iptable_filter]
>
> As for what is in /dev, I have hda1-hdt9 displayed and sda1-sdz9. Yes
> and
> when I try switching to sda1 it tells me that it is not a block device.
> When i list all, the only thing that shows is hda1 and my cdrom.
>
> Jason
> <quote who="David Hacker">
>> Try using lsmod to see what modules are loaded. If the usb-storage
>> dirver is already loaded then it should be recognized. Also, take a
>> look in your /dev directory and see if there are any other hd? or sd?
>> files besides the hda for your internal hard drive. Did you try
>> looking at the partition maps with pdisk?
>>
>> David C. Hacker, DVM
>> On Jun 28, 2004, at 9:56 AM, Jason Warm wrote:
>>
>>> When I type "/sbin/modprobe usb-storage" and hit enter, nothing
>>> happens (I
>>> am doing this as root). I get no error message or response of any
>>> kind.
>>> I just get a new command line. When I did "/sbin/modprobe -l" and
>>> got
>>> the
>>> full list,
>>> "/lib/modules/2.4.22-2g/kernel/drivers/usb/storage/usb-storage.o" was
>>> listed.
>>>
>>> Jason
>>>
>>> <quote who="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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>>>>>>>>> jwarm@miasys.com
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