mount external usn hard-disk
 

Hi a friend of mine gave me an external usb hard-disk to use it with my suse 9.2....
As far as i know my friend has the same os and works fine with the hard-disk.....Unfortunately i am not so lucky because i dont know what to do... I have noticed that the os detects the hard disk succesfully


dmesg:

Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi4, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg2 at scsi4, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
USB Mass Storage device found at 5
usb 5-8: USB disconnect, address 5
usb 5-8: new high speed USB device using address 6
usb 5-8: Product: USB2.0 Storage Device
usb 5-8: Manufacturer: Cypress Semiconductor
usb 5-8: SerialNumber: A12QB0045616
scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: WDC WD12 Model: 00JB-00EVA0 Rev: 0 0
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sdb: 234441648 512-byte hdwr sectors (120034 MB)
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
sdb: sdb1 sdb2
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi5, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg2 at scsi5, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
USB Mass Storage device found at 6



The only problem that i have is how i can mount such disk .. where is the apropriate entry in the /dev directory? Can u give me some explanations what should i do in such cases ... and where should i try to mount it.....??

Hi,

the info you posted contains "SCSI device sdb:". Try to create a mount point

and then mount the "scsi disk" (which is your external drive

Don't forget to unmount as soon as you are finished using the disk

(just to make sure your current directory is not the external disk