From: Frank Peters <frank.peters@comcast.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD
Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 18:12:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120506181257.7e988aec.frank.peters@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FA6CE7F.7020702@sblan.net>
On Sun, 06 May 2012 13:18:23 -0600
Stan Sander <stsander@sblan.net> wrote:
> I don't have one of those drives at the moment, but on my system I
> typically have usb-common, usb-core, and usb-storage. Only thing I use
> sg for is burning CD's/DVD's. You didn't mention this specifically, so
> for what it's worth I access such devices as /dev/sd* just like I would
> any other internal drive.
>
Since my keyboard and mouse are both USB devices, I have the basic USB modules
for built into the kernel, and those would include, I believe, usb-core
and usb-common.
For other USB devices, such as printers and mass storage, I need to load
some more modules before using them. I would assume that a Western Digital
USB HDD is just another mass storage device, like a thumb drive, that would
call for sg and usb-storage, but before I spend more money on acquiring one
I need to know exactly how to set things up.
Yes, a thumb USB drive, and presumable all USB mass storage devices, are
recognized as SCSI drives and accessed via /dev/sdX.
Some might ask why not just utilize udev or similar to automount the device.
For me, Linux means choice and control and I would rather understand my own
system even if it means a little less convenience. For that reason I avoid udev.
Frank Peters
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-07 0:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-06 18:29 [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD Frank Peters
2012-05-06 19:18 ` Stan Sander
2012-05-06 22:12 ` Frank Peters [this message]
2012-05-06 23:46 ` Paul Hartman
2012-05-07 10:51 ` Thomas Rösner
2012-05-07 13:34 ` Frank Peters
[not found] ` <CAK2H+edzy3S9fX86frKLEvYfLN1_dg03k5B3z7DfATbF501S_A@mail.gmail.com>
2012-05-07 15:21 ` Paul Hartman
2012-05-07 15:43 ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-07 21:18 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-07 21:42 ` Mark Knecht
2012-05-07 21:45 ` Paul Hartman
2012-05-07 21:58 ` Michael Scherer
2012-05-08 10:56 ` Thomas Rösner
2012-05-10 2:49 ` Frank Peters
2012-05-10 13:07 ` Benny Pedersen
2012-05-10 15:30 ` Sylvain Alain
2012-05-10 15:42 ` Frank Peters
2012-05-10 16:31 ` Lie Ryan
2012-05-10 16:46 ` Bob Sanders
2012-05-11 0:22 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2012-05-11 8:33 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Alex Alexander
2012-05-11 11:20 ` Rich Freeman
2012-05-07 11:31 ` David Relson
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