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 1Fzmm3-0000EQ-Vb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 03:49:32 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6A3mL13019980; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 03:48:21 GMT Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.226]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6A3hZEd011396 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 03:43:36 GMT Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 36so1667100wra for ; Sun, 09 Jul 2006 20:43:35 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=YW50h9d9XrKNbW6vkwwx1HzgpYkfoScFoYJPuuwPsus+vocqPm7/zXvwdkUOR1xjyFq7NfGG72coeG62F1RPYQIPvVe8xKn5RvwBBME29dQ1gMwS9HRXiAKYW1bgX9CbX4lU7LTOMU9PdwJr7HFZrwmUKtyvjayrNkk9uUVw1lM= Received: by 10.65.113.11 with SMTP id q11mr4131347qbm; Sun, 09 Jul 2006 20:43:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.101? ( [24.36.7.237]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id f17sm4157256qba.2006.07.09.20.43.34; Sun, 09 Jul 2006 20:43:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <44B1CCE5.6040301@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 23:43:33 -0400 From: Colleen Beamer User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060605) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] External USB drive X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 804421ab-decd-4a06-bc11-d4c7ffec80b8 X-Archives-Hash: 94ef40fc247ba5192910992d4af03b65 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