Having a hard time making linux recognizing my new external hard drive
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So this the results for sudo apt-get install hfsutils
jared@jared-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install hfsutils
[sudo] password for jared:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
hfsutils is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libsdl-console libsdl-gfx1.2-4 python-pycurl libmono-zeroconf1.0-cil
libtagc0 python-pyogg podsleuth python-pyrex unixodbc odbcinst1debian1
libsdl-ttf2.0-0 libtaglib2.0-cil libboo2.0-cil libkarma0 libavahi1.0-cil
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 17 not upgraded.
jared@jared-desktop:~$
SO recently I was looking at some forums online, some people think its the raid thats in the external hard, so is there a way to have ubuntu recognize the raid so i can access it.
Last edited by jared nelson; 03-24-2009 at 03:41 PM.
Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60060155904 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7301 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xfcb1ec06
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 7114 57143173+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 7115 7301 1502077+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 7115 7301 1502046 82 Linux swap / Solaris
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