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I have plugged in my USB External Hard Drive into my FC3 laptop, and it doesn't mount automatically. Please may someone tell me what command I need to issue into terminal to mount my Ext. HDD? Thanks, it's quite urgent.
try fdisk -l to see if the device/partitions are visible.
If they are use the mount command.
mount /dev/sd?? /<path_to_mount_point>
This is a temporary mount available only until next reboot.
For a more permanent mount use /etc/fstab.
Be aware that a device may not always appear at the same position on USB and therefore permanent mounts may be tricky.
Thanks for replying gerardt, but when I type in "fdisk -l" it just says that bash has an error because fdisk does not exist! Do you know of anything else I can do? Thanks,
[EDIT]
But if I type n "man fdisk", the man file comes up!
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Note: this is what I would do in Slackware, not sure about FC* but worth a try...
open a console window and as root enter (without the ' ' )
'tail -f /var/log/messages'
Then plug it in and some messages should appear telling you where the device has been recognised, then use that info to mount the drive.
For some reason I have a USB drive showing up a sr0 , but this method helped me mount it
Apr 30 21:10:28 localhost kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 3
Apr 30 21:10:28 localhost kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Apr 30 21:10:33 localhost wait_for_sysfs[3507]: either wait_for_sysfs (udev 039)
needs an update to handle the device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0'
properly (no bus device link) or the sysfs-support of your device's driver needs to be fixed,
please report to <linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Apr 30 21:10:43 localhost hal.hotplug[3529]: timeout(10000 ms) waiting for /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0
The funny thing is that the update rpm for "udev" is on the hard disk! If I write it onto a CD-RW and install it do you think it might work? Thanks in advance,
Now that I have installed the new udev, this is the result of "tail -f /var/log/messages" when I plug in my LaCie External Hard Drive:
Code:
Apr 30 22:06:08 localhost kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 2
Apr 30 22:06:10 localhost kernel: SCSI subsystem initialized
Apr 30 22:06:10 localhost kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Apr 30 22:06:10 localhost kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
And then slightly later on...
Code:
Apr 30 22:07:00 localhost kernel: usb 1-2: reset full speed USB device using
address 2
Apr 30 22:07:16 localhost kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error
recovery: host 0 channel 0 id 0 lun 0
Apr 30 22:07:16 localhost kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
Apr 30 22:07:16 localhost kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
The only problem remaining is - 1) Is it already mounted? If so, where? - or 2) If it isn't mounted, how do I mount it? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again,
I'm having the exact same problem, same exact error messages! I'm trying to get external USB Maxtor 40gb drive working.
Mar 30 17:35:02 oxygen su(pam_unix)[22644]: session opened for user root by ig(uid=500)
Mar 30 17:35:54 oxygen kernel: usb 1-8: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 11
Mar 30 17:35:54 oxygen kernel: scsi8 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Mar 30 17:35:59 oxygen kernel: Vendor: (l(l(l(l Model: (l(l(l(l(l(l(l(l Rev: 0811
Mar 30 17:35:59 oxygen kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Mar 30 17:35:59 oxygen kernel: SCSI device sda: 678176876 512-byte hdwr sectors (347227 MB)
Mar 30 17:35:59 oxygen kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Mar 30 17:35:59 oxygen kernel: SCSI device sda: 678176876 512-byte hdwr sectors (347227 MB)
Mar 30 17:35:59 oxygen kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Mar 30 17:36:15 oxygen hal.hotplug[22765]: timout(10000 ms) waiting for /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-8/1-8:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0
Mar 30 17:36:25 oxygen scsi.agent[22776]: Attribute /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-8/1-8:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0/type does not exist
[root@oxygen ~]# lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 011: ID 05e3:0702 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB 2.0 IDE Adapter
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
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