Re: [SLUG] External USB Hard Drive Case + HDD

[Gerard Blacklock]

yeah got it working fine - way too easy! just mounted the respective FS 
(1 fat32 and 1 ext3) from /dev/sda1 and dev/sda2 ...all after a bit of 
reformatting tho!

The USB hardrive case is USB2.0, however i do not have USB2.0 on any 
boxes :( but it appears it is backwards compatible with USB1 )

However with USB1 it is darn slow......

Thanks for the info guys, was a bit too easy to get to work.....

gerard



Patrick Lesslie wrote:

On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 07:53:24AM +1100, David Kempe wrote:
 

Gerard Blacklock wrote:
   

Anyone had any luck in getting an external USB hard drive to work under 
linux? I have had the USB keys working fine by mounting as FAT no probs,

Any pointers on where to look regarding this issue? not 100% sure where 
to start!
     

is it usb2?
you need a recent kernel.. then just use the usbstorage module and dmesg 
should tell you it added /dev/sda or whatever
   

I had trouble till I realised I also needed the sd_mod module for
the hard disk (I think sr_mod if it's a CD device).
 



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