Mounting my USB external drive, USB 1.1

Devillion · 01-03-2004, 07:51 PM

I have an USB 1.1 external harddrive that i would like to mount to my linux laptop to use. This laptop is dual boot with windows XP and the drive works fine on windows. How can i mount this USB drive to linux? The external drive in question is partitioned in half if that matters.

ezra143 · 01-04-2004, 05:44 AM

something like mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbHD

that should put you on the right track

Devillion · 01-04-2004, 08:22 AM

Thank you, but i get an 'access is denied' message when i try to use those /dev/sda1.

merlin371 · 01-04-2004, 08:24 AM

on root enter
chmod 777 /dev/sda1
that shoul do it

samhob · 01-04-2004, 09:11 AM

or maybe :

modprobe usb-storage

it will enable scsi emulation for your external usb disk than mount it i think it is /dev/sda1