Re: [newbie] LaCie USB HArd Drive on a Dell Inspiron 7000
civileme wrote: Umm it may not work at all under linux. Does it have a special windows driver? In MS windows98 it needs one and, funny enough, in W2k on the laptop while W2k on the desktop PC mounts it without the need of a special driver. The way to set it up for mounting is to a) use the linux instruction mknod to set up a device if one is not already set up. b) enter the information about the drive, mount point(s), filesystem used, mount options, and 0 0 in one or more lines of /etc/fstab Your friends are the console comands man mknod man fstab man mount I'll certainly try it. I have tried everything but the mknod command. Maybe that's what's missing. But, at this early stage of USB standards and USB support, all of your work, no matter how correctly done, may come to naught. First contact the drive folks at website or by email or phone and ask if it does work under linux. I found a letter on the linux-usb site from someone who succeeded with exactly the values that are found in the /usr/src/linux/drivers/usb/storage/unusual-devs.h /Serafim
Re: [newbie] LaCie USB HArd Drive on a Dell Inspiron 7000
On Saturday 09 June 2001 12:02, Serafim Dahl wrote: I use a Dell Inspiron 7000 on which I have installed Linux-Mandrake 8.0. It is a standard out of the box installation with no modifications and I use the precompiled kernel. I also have a LaCie 20 GB USB hard drive that is found (by harddrake) but not recognized as anything else than an unknown device. When checking the system before attaching the LaCie hard drive, it's OK, the USB deamon is up and running and running /usr/local/sbin/lsusb I can see that the USB HUB is up and running. However, when attaching the LaCie hard drive, I get the following output from /usr/local/sbin/lsusb: [root]# /usr/local/sbin/lsusb Bus 001 Device 001: ID : Device Descriptor: bLength18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 1.00 bDeviceClass9 Hub bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 8 idVendor 0x idProduct 0x bcdDevice0.00 iManufacturer 0 iProduct2 iSerial 1 bNumConfigurations 1 Configuration Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 2 wTotalLength 25 bNumInterfaces 1 bConfigurationValue 1 iConfiguration 0 bmAttributes 0x40 Self Powered MaxPower0mA Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber0 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 1 bInterfaceClass 9 Hub bInterfaceSubClass 0 bInterfaceProtocol 0 iInterface 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN bmAttributes3 Transfer TypeInterrupt Synch Type none wMaxPacketSize 8 bInterval 255 Language IDs: Bus 001 Device 005: ID 059f:a601 Electronique D2 cannot get string descriptor 1, Connection timed out (110) cannot get string descriptor 2, Connection timed out (110) Device Descriptor: bLength18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 1.00 bDeviceClass0 Interface bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize0 8 idVendor 0x059f Electronique D2 idProduct 0xa601 bcdDevice2.00 iManufacturer 1 iProduct2 iSerial 0 bNumConfigurations 1 Configuration Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 2 wTotalLength 39 bNumInterfaces 1 bConfigurationValue 1 iConfiguration 0 bmAttributes 0x80 MaxPower 288mA cannot get string descriptor 4, Connection timed out (110) Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber0 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 3 bInterfaceClass 8 Mass Storage bInterfaceSubClass 1 bInterfaceProtocol 1 iInterface 4 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN bmAttributes2 Transfer TypeBulk Synch Type none wMaxPacketSize 64 bInterval 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x02 EP 2 OUT bmAttributes2 Transfer TypeBulk Synch Type none wMaxPacketSize 64 bInterval 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x83 EP 3 IN bmAttributes3 Transfer TypeInterrupt Synch Type none wMaxPacketSize 2 bInterval 100 Language IDs: none (cannot get string descriptor) -- If I run the command again I get three Cannot get string descriptor errors. After a while the USB deamon dies. I changed the /etc/modules.comf and added the line post-install usb-uhci modprobe usb-storage but the only difference is that usb-storage is loaded from startup instead of loading on the fly. The errors are the same. Running usbview, I find that the device is found but not mounted correctly. What can I do to make this hard drive work as it should?
