From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SRBPh-0003Ko-RO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 00:02:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BC51AE0281 for ; Mon, 7 May 2012 00:02:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qmta11.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta11.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.27.211]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38E37E0654 for ; Sun, 6 May 2012 22:13:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta19.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.76]) by qmta11.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 6lx21j0061eYJf8ABmDTtX; Sun, 06 May 2012 22:13:27 +0000 Received: from ajax ([24.11.47.14]) by omta19.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 6mDS1j00X0JMh7c01mDS4X; Sun, 06 May 2012 22:13:27 +0000 Date: Sun, 6 May 2012 18:12:57 -0400 From: Frank Peters To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD Message-Id: <20120506181257.7e988aec.frank.peters@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <4FA6CE7F.7020702@sblan.net> References: <20120506142920.8c2e0f06.frank.peters@comcast.net> <4FA6CE7F.7020702@sblan.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.4 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a4e538ce-4ac7-4667-844d-6dd36b54d491 X-Archives-Hash: 8d307a2eabc584ed4e795db905ccf647 On Sun, 06 May 2012 13:18:23 -0600 Stan Sander 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