[gentoo-user] External USB drive

[gentoo-user] External USB drive

[Colleen Beamer]

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

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Re: [gentoo-user] External USB drive

[pepone pepone]

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 <colleen.beamer@gmail.com> 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
>
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>
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>
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>
>


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Re: [gentoo-user] External USB drive

[Colleen Beamer]

pepone pepone wrote:
> Hi Colleen
>
> if you type "dmesg" as root when you plug your usb device you can view
> what device is attached to it
Thanks for the response, but you can disregard.  I've figured it out.  I
guess I jumped the gun and cried for help a little too soon, sorry! :-)

Regards,

Colleen

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Re: [gentoo-user] External USB drive

[Iain Buchanan]

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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