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Old 03-11-2004, 02:31 AM   #1
CondorPasa
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Mounting Ext. Hard Drive through USB 2+PCMCIA


Hello,

I have an external hard drive that connects through USB 2. The problem is that my Inspiron 4150 laptop has only USB 1 port. I have bought a PCMCIA USB2 adapter in order to enable USB2. This combo works perfectly under Windows (I have formatted half of the hard drive for NTFS). I have no idea how to approach this problem under Linux. I would also like to know how to mount the hard drive directly through my USB 1 port.

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Old 03-11-2004, 06:49 AM   #2
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Re: Mounting Ext. Hard Drive through USB 2+PCMCIA

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I have an external hard drive that connects through USB 2. The problem is that my Inspiron 4150 laptop has only USB 1 port. I have bought a PCMCIA USB2 adapter in order to enable USB2. This combo works perfectly under Windows (I have formatted half of the hard drive for NTFS). I have no idea how to approach this problem under Linux. I would also like to know how to mount the hard drive directly through my USB 1 port.
Hi.
I have a pcmcia usb2 card, and I loaded it correctly using EHCI and OHCI kernel modules (using 2.6.3. If I remember right the default module for usb is UHCI).

Once you connect the pcmcia and the drive to the usb, the hotplug or the *hci modules will create a device under the /dev directory (normally /dev/sda1). After that you can mount it as a normal partition.

I don't think an usb2 hd will work on the usb1 pc port.

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