[Sussex] external hard drives - much confusion.

[John D.]

On Saturday 04 November 2006 17:46, Colin Tuckley wrote:
> John D. wrote:
> > It's one of the many that says it only supports windows and mac.
>
> Ignore that, they are just talking about drivers which you don't need.
>
> > If I try to connect it via USB, I can see, by doing "tail
> > /var/log/messages" that it appears to be seen as a scsi emulated device
> > on one of the USB ports but nothing else.
>
> Yes, that is correct, external usb hard drives are done as emulated scsi.
>
> Depending on which distro you are running it may get auto mounted. Take a
> look in /etc/mtab and see if the drive mentioned in /var/log/messages has
> been mounted, if not then try adding a line like:
>
> /dev/sda1      /media/usbdrive vfat    rw,users,noauto  0       0
>
> to /etc/fstab
>
> You will need to be root to edit it and you need to make sure that the
> mount point (/media/usbdrive in the example above) exists and is world
> read/write.
>
> after that you should be able to type "mount /media/usbdrive" as any user
> and it should mount it.
>
> > I've tried having the jumper on the back of the HDD set in both
> > master/slave, cable select and not having one on it at all.
>
> Leave it as master.

Thanks Colin, I'll give that lot a try.
>
> > Can anyone advise me, as to how I might get this working ?
>
> Alternatively bring it to the BCF tomorrow and we can try to sort it out.
>
> Colin
Ha ha, hadn't thought of that.

regards

John D.