USB hard drive and CD-RW

[Andrew]

As Far As I Know, yes... but I know so little ;)

On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 15:04, Jason Warm wrote:
> And let me guess, if my drive is not listed under USB devices I am pretty
> much SOL?
> 
> Jason
> 
> <quote who="Andrew">
> > Try that:
> >
> > ]# dmesg | grep <string>
> >
> > 	where <string> can be anything to search for into dmesg file, piped
> > through grep. This is a filter of some sort. Subdue <string> with usb,
> > USB, disk, drive and so on until you find what you are looking for.
> >
> > There is the 'Info Center' ('kinfocenter' in a terminal or just select
> > it from 'System Tools' in KMenu) There is a section entitled 'USB
> > Devices' If its only recognized, it will be there. You may have to
> > format it in a format YellowDog can understand.
> >
> > -andrew
> >
> > On Mon, 2004-06-28 at 09:21, 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.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> --
> >> >>>> Jason Warm
> >> >>>> jwarm@miasys.com
> >> >>>>
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> >> >> --
> >> >> Jason Warm
> >> >> jwarm@miasys.com
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