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 1SRMfF-0004nJ-Ok for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 07 May 2012 12:03:42 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5BB17E071E for ; Mon, 7 May 2012 12:03:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.osagesoftware.com (usr33-138.provide.net [216.86.83.138]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F21E4E05FE for ; Mon, 7 May 2012 11:31:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from osage (osage.osagesoftware.com [192.168.1.10]) by mail.osagesoftware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DADB7BC48; Mon, 7 May 2012 07:31:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 7 May 2012 07:31:28 -0400 From: David Relson To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Cc: frank.peters@comcast.net Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD Message-ID: <20120507073128.2678d4b7@osage> In-Reply-To: <20120506142920.8c2e0f06.frank.peters@comcast.net> References: <20120506142920.8c2e0f06.frank.peters@comcast.net> Organization: Osage Software Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-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: e40bcca8-ff76-4017-a562-33685b32df25 X-Archives-Hash: 34a934e742188a154619ec9ffdbbec12 On Sun, 6 May 2012 14:29:20 -0400 Frank Peters wrote: ... ... > Using a Gentoo Live DVD to boot Linux, the drive was recognized > without any read errors. In this case fdisk could recognize the > drive. I then attempted to reformat the drive with an ext2 file > system but the format failed. ... ... With the LiveCD running, try the following commands "lsusb -v" to list information on the usb devices found by Gentoo "lsmod" to list the modules loaded. HTH, David