From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Fzn8K-0001rG-Id for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 04:12:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6A49DsL015458; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 04:09:13 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.189]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6A3rRbC012349 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 03:53:28 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id b2so401586nfe for ; Sun, 09 Jul 2006 20:53:27 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=FxN8bczbN8fNcpWfRV5SZ6h2Urj83tvGCrcfcruJQwO7753USQu88OEfcuGy4wbs7gGU007McKYp3bPyZvWp4Xv/ZBQZBz35lBr5BR8+wk5pH8dI5H3sRNODVvEBpxLofHrcMrJ/ReBMLHlwjk9OkEQ7IciPKH7YsuTSFy6b/yk= Received: by 10.78.151.15 with SMTP id y15mr1503691hud; Sun, 09 Jul 2006 20:53:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.58.20 with HTTP; Sun, 9 Jul 2006 20:53:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <198501d60607092053m77095e04k5955f5fdc523271f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 05:53:27 +0200 From: "pepone pepone" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] External USB drive In-Reply-To: <44B1CCE5.6040301@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44B1CCE5.6040301@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: a657a913-329a-42c6-866a-388b72eebfe8 X-Archives-Hash: f48c82097c131c1fdc7ac7402307ad20 Hi Colleen if you type "dmesg" as root when you plug your usb device you can view what device is attached to it hope this help On 7/10/06, Colleen Beamer wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just upgraded to modular X, KDE 3.5 and installed a new CD-RW > drive. My system is back to working flawlessly. > > 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. However, /dev appears to have changed and there > are no longer multiple choices like sda1, etc. > > 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. > > This is the output from lsusb: > > lsusb > Bus 002 Device 003: ID 059b:0035 Iomega Corp. > Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8086:1122 Intel Corp. > Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 > Bus 001 Device 003: ID 03f0:0604 Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 840c > Bus 001 Device 002: ID 03f0:0605 Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 2200c > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 > > I've tried various combinations of /dev/usb (ie 2,3, etc) and /dev/scsi, > but I can't get the drive to mount so I can put a file system on it. > And from the above, I have no idea what Bus 002 Device 002 is unless it > refers to the external hard drive, which is an Iomega. The Bus 002 > Device 3 is my zip drive and on Bus 001, the peripherals are self > explanatory. > > I don't want to do anything to fancy - it doesn't have to boot, I just > want it for my ripped music files. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Regards, > > Colleen > > -- > > Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- play tetris http://pepone.on-rez.com/tetris run gentoo http://gentoo-notes.blogspot.com/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list