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 1SR8bg-00079Q-15 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 06 May 2012 21:03:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9FA5AE04E7 for ; Sun, 6 May 2012 21:03:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from sblan.net (siren.sblan.net [67.41.4.245]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 431BBE067D for ; Sun, 6 May 2012 19:18:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:2001:470:d:476::1] (siren.sblan.net [IPv6:2001:470:d:476::1]) (authenticated bits=0) by sblan.net (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q46JIUeP017415 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 6 May 2012 13:18:31 -0600 Message-ID: <4FA6CE7F.7020702@sblan.net> Date: Sun, 06 May 2012 13:18:23 -0600 From: Stan Sander User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120504 Thunderbird/12.0.1 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 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Drivers For USB HDD References: <20120506142920.8c2e0f06.frank.peters@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20120506142920.8c2e0f06.frank.peters@comcast.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5pre Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig4818B516969A1B1CC5F17AA5" X-Spam-Score: -1 () ALL_TRUSTED,SHORTCIRCUIT X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.73 X-Archives-Salt: 1f00ab59-01ef-4300-ba42-7ae28728a570 X-Archives-Hash: 37d6bf880bf41d5e640a955d8e1180a0 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig4818B516969A1B1CC5F17AA5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 05/06/2012 12:29 PM, Frank Peters wrote: > > Internet searches only provide comments from Ubuntu or Fedora users > stating that "I plugged it in and it worked," which are next to useless= =2E > I need to know what modules (drivers) and basic commands can get a West= ern > Digital USB external HDD to successfully mount. > > Frank Peters > 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.=20 --=20 Stan & HD Tashi Grad 10/08 Edgewood, NM SWR PR - Cindy and Jenny - Sammamish, WA NWR http://www.cci.org --------------enig4818B516969A1B1CC5F17AA5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk+mzoYACgkQpStiiGsODQoh5ACgnTSXIRJXm4mMkHN7l0K3tBDL hTMAnArEQr03WvCEW4+3bgwwgWj238TI =Flpr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig4818B516969A1B1CC5F17AA5--