Re: [gentoo-user] External USB drive

[Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>]

On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 23:43 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote:

> However, my issue now is trying to get an external Iomega 250 gig usb
> hard drive to work.
> 
> I've tried googling for information as well as looking in the archives. 
> However, all the information is old.  For instance, it tells me that usb
> peripherals are recognized ad scsi devices, which is true in for my zip
> drive, which is sda4.

yep, afaik.

>   However, /dev appears to have changed and there
> are no longer multiple choices like sda1, etc.

really?  Is there a filesystem on this device already? ie. is it
formatted?  If not, then you will only see /dev/sda.  When it's
formatted you will see /dev/sda[1..n] depending on how many partitions
are on it.

> Regardless, if I modify fstab to read /dev/usb and save the file, a
> window will pop up saying that an unmounted hard drive has been
> detected.  However, if I try to mount it I'm told that /dev/usb is not a
> block device.

I don't think /dev/usb is the right device... unless you have some udev
rule setting up /dev/usb... I don't even have a /dev/usb!

So, if it's not formatted yet, then just run
fdisk /dev/sdx
to create a partition, then you should see /dev/sdx1

Also, you could provide udev and kernel versions.

HTH,
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

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