On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 21:52, Ammon Christiansen wrote:
> My roomate has a seagate 160 gig external hard drive with usb and 
> firewire connections.  We haven't had any luck autodetecting it under 
> Windows.  It is HFS+ since he uses mac.  Any chance we can get Linux to 
> recognize it like it will recognize usb cameras?

I'm not surprised Windows won't see it if it's HFS+.  Linux won't be
able to read the HFS+ partition natively either.  However there is
ahttp://www.linux1394.org/scripts/rescan-scsi-bus.shn hfs+[1] driver for
linux that I've used and it works well.  Linux will recognize the disk
over USB or firewire.  tail -f /var/log/messages as you plug it in.  For
USB, it's just the usb-storage module you need to load.  For firewire,
sbp2.  Note that until distros support the newer method of doing hotplug
for these devices, you may have to run the script rescan-scsi-bus.sh[2]
(more information at the www.linux1394.org[3] site) before Linux will
actually see the partitions themselves.

Michael


[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-hfsplus
[2] http://www.linux1394.org/scripts/rescan-scsi-bus.sh
[3] http://www.linux1394.org/sbp2.html



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