I've got an external USB HD, which is actually a regular IDE drive in USB enclosure. It was formatted on Windows (with Partition Magic, if that's relevant) into two FAT partitions, and on the Windows side it works as it's supposed to. Now I would like to use it with Linux, and here's where problems start. Actually I would like to reformat it as ext2, but I can't even find it in the first place! As I understand it, this drive should appear as SCSI-emulated disk, so I tried to do things like "fdisk /dev/sda (and sdb... and a couple of others) but the answer is always the same: "unable to open /dev/whatever" The system is Libranet 2.7, with its standard kernel 2.4.19, so it should have sufficient USB support built in. And indeed it seems to know the device is there: KDE's Preferences->Information->SCSI reports:
Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: LITE-ON Model: LTR-40125S Rev: ZS0N Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: EagleTec Model: External Hard Di Rev: 0002 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 So why can't I find it under /dev ? Shouldn't it appear as sda, or sdb or some such? (I don't have any actual scsi devices on this system, but there is another emulated one, IDE cd burner) Hmm... I also looked at Preferences->information->block devices. It doesn't appear there... So I'm stumped now. And rather frustrated, I must admit. --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." -- A.J Liebling, media critic -- 17:45:56 up 4:09, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.00-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
