Re: How to access external USB hard drive?

2004-12-28 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
Do I need hotplug installed for the kernel to see the drive? It's currently not installed. no, you shouldnt (although it is a good package), instead try a different kernel. (either compile your own from kernel.org or up/downgrade to either 2.6.7 or 2.6.9) -matt zagrabelny -- To

Re: How to access external USB hard drive?

2004-12-28 Thread Jonathan Lassoff
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 08:34:36 -0600, Matt Zagrabelny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do I need hotplug installed for the kernel to see the drive? It's currently not installed. no, you shouldnt (although it is a good package), instead try a different kernel. (either compile your own from

Re: How to access external USB hard drive?

2004-12-25 Thread René Seindal
Matt Perry wrote (25-12-2004 08:46): On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, Ron Johnson wrote: Is usbfs in your /etc/fstab? $ cat /etc/mtab | grep usbfs usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0 I just found an old firewire card that I had laying around and tried that. The enclosure has firewire so I figured it'd be

How to access external USB hard drive?

2004-12-24 Thread Matt Perry
Hi everyone. I'm running Debian Sarge with kernel 2.6.8-1-686 (from the deb kernel package). I just bought a USB drive enclosure with a drive that I wish to mount in Debian. I'm not sure what I need to do to make this happen. I plugged the unit into the USB port but I didn't see anything

Re: How to access external USB hard drive?

2004-12-24 Thread Darryl Clarke
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 18:19:35 -0800 (PST), Matt Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone. I'm running Debian Sarge with kernel 2.6.8-1-686 (from the deb kernel package). I just bought a USB drive enclosure with a drive that I wish to mount in Debian. I'm not sure what I need to do to make

Re: How to access external USB hard drive?

2004-12-24 Thread Matt Perry
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Darryl Clarke wrote: If you check 'dmesg' output right after you plug it in you should see something similar to this: [snip] I tried that and there was no new output in dmesg. At the time the usb drivers that are loaded are usbkbd and usbcore. After plugging it in and

Re: How to access external USB hard drive?

2004-12-24 Thread Darryl Clarke
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 18:45:41 -0800 (PST), Matt Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Darryl Clarke wrote: [snip] Do I need hotplug installed for the kernel to see the drive? It's currently not installed. Maybe? I can not confirm that. All I know is that it manages my usb

Re: How to access external USB hard drive?

2004-12-24 Thread Matt Perry
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Darryl Clarke wrote: Maybe? I can not confirm that. All I know is that it manages my usb devices and it works for my 4 USB2 HDs. At least it's easy to remove if it doesn't work ;) I can say that they use SCSI emulation, so maybe some scsi modules are missing. I have

Re: How to access external USB hard drive?

2004-12-24 Thread Xinjiang Lu
I am doing the old way. Edit /etc/fstab, add an entry of the device. After plug in the usb hd, there won't be automount. I have to do it in command line or click the icon in the gnome/my computer. -Xinjiang Matt Perry wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Darryl Clarke wrote: Maybe? I can not confirm

Re: How to access external USB hard drive?

2004-12-24 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 19:12 -0800, Matt Perry wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Darryl Clarke wrote: Maybe? I can not confirm that. All I know is that it manages my usb devices and it works for my 4 USB2 HDs. At least it's easy to remove if it doesn't work ;) I can say that they use SCSI

Re: How to access external USB hard drive?

2004-12-24 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Matt Perry_, on 24/12/04 22:12,typed: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Darryl Clarke wrote: Maybe? I can not confirm that. All I know is that it manages my usb devices and it works for my 4 USB2 HDs. At least it's easy to remove if it doesn't work ;) I can say that they use SCSI emulation, so

Re: How to access external USB hard drive?

2004-12-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 19:12 -0800, Matt Perry wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Darryl Clarke wrote: Maybe? I can not confirm that. All I know is that it manages my usb devices and it works for my 4 USB2 HDs. At least it's easy to remove if it doesn't work ;) I can say that they use SCSI

Re: How to access external USB hard drive?

2004-12-24 Thread Matt Perry
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Eric Gaumer wrote: ]$ cat /proc/bus/usb/devices should show what's on the usb bus and what drivers are attached to each device. Post that info and it may help turn up a solution. /proc/bus/usb is an empty directory. On Fri,

Re: How to access external USB hard drive?

2004-12-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 22:07 -0800, Matt Perry wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Eric Gaumer wrote: ]$ cat /proc/bus/usb/devices should show what's on the usb bus and what drivers are attached to each device. Post that info and it may help turn up a

Re: How to access external USB hard drive?

2004-12-24 Thread Matt Perry
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, Ron Johnson wrote: /proc/bus/usb is an empty directory. Is usbfs in your /etc/fstab? $ cat /etc/mtab | grep usbfs usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0 It's not in /etc/fstab but it is mouted: $ mount /dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type

Re: How to access external USB hard drive?

2004-12-24 Thread Matt Perry
On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, Ron Johnson wrote: Is usbfs in your /etc/fstab? $ cat /etc/mtab | grep usbfs usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0 I just found an old firewire card that I had laying around and tried that. The enclosure has firewire so I figured it'd be worth a shot. It worked find with