How do I use a usb hard drive in fedora? It is an ntfs drive. I've gone through the steps of installing ntfs support so that is no problem. Under the hardware browser the drive is listed as sda and sda1. dual partitioned. Where is it? How do I mount it? Help??? Please, I really need this info off the drive for a meeting tomorrow. I really don't want to have to go back to windows to get it!

here is my data. It shows up but i don't know how to access it! Pease help!
[root@localhost root]# dmesg
Linux version 2.4.22-1.2199.nptl (bhcompile@tweety.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2.3 20030422 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-6)) #1 Wed Aug 4 12:21:48 EDT 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000fff0000 - 000000000fff3800 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 000000000fff3800 - 0000000010000000 (ACPI NVS)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
255MB LOWMEM available.
ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
On node 0 totalpages: 65520
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 61424 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 COMPAQ ) @ 0x000f9970
ACPI: RSDT (v001 COMPAQ RSDTBL 0x00000001 CPQ 0x00000001) @ 0x0fff4800
ACPI: FADT (v001 COMPAQ CPQB151 0x20020315 CPQ 0x00000001) @ 0x0fff4828
ACPI: DSDT (v001 COMPAQ ARMADAE7 0x00010000 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 497.443 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 992.87 BogoMIPS
Memory: 255248k/262080k available (1473k kernel code, 6444k reserved, 1099k data, 136k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 03
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20031002
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0478, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Discovered primary peer bus 04 [IRQ]
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/7110] at 00:07.0
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS2 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x3420-0x3427, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbMA
hda: IC25N040ATMR04-0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: CD-224E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
blk: queue c0402f40, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 78140160 sectors (40008 MB) w/1740KiB Cache, CHS=4864/255/63, UDMA(33)
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
ide: late registration of driver.
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 160k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed
mtrr: 0x40000000,0x800000 overlaps existing 0x40000000,0x400000
mtrr: 0x40000000,0x800000 overlaps existing 0x40000000,0x400000
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 12:28:11 Aug 4 2004
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:07.2
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x3400, IRQ 11
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
hub.c: new USB device 00:07.2-1, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x409/0x6a) is not claimed by any active driver.
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,3), internal journal
Adding Swap: 1020116k swap-space (priority -1)
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 360
Vendor: DIAMOND Model: 080G 2F5400 Rev: RAMC
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
USB Mass Storage support registered.
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 160086528 512-byte hdwr sectors (81964 MB)
sda: sda1 sda2
inserting floppy driver for 2.4.22-1.2199.nptl
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 1597
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.11 <tigran@veritas.com>
microcode: CPU0 no microcode found! (sig=683, pflags=32)
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 610C
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
ds: no socket drivers loaded!
unloading Kernel Card Services
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (2047 buckets, 16376 max) - 292 bytes per conntrack
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
ds: no socket drivers loaded!
unloading Kernel Card Services
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
ds: no socket drivers loaded!
unloading Kernel Card Services
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:04.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:04.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 01:00.0
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:04.1
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:04.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 01:00.0
Yenta IRQ list 06b8, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000010
Yenta IRQ list 06b8, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000006
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x100-0x107 0x378-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: Asix AX88190: io 0x300, irq 3, hw_addr 00:04:5A:A6:1B:35
eth0: found link beat
eth0: autonegotiation complete: 100baseT-FD selected
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 610C
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
mtrr: 0x40000000,0x800000 overlaps existing 0x40000000,0x400000
mtrr: 0x40000000,0x800000 overlaps existing 0x40000000,0x400000
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:08.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:09.0
maestro: Configuring ESS Maestro 2E found at IO 0x3000 IRQ 11
maestro: subvendor id: 0xb1120e11
maestro: not attempting power management.
maestro: AC97 Codec detected: v: 0x83847609 caps: 0x6940 pwr: 0xf
maestro: 1 channels configured.
maestro: version 0.15 time 12:28:02 Aug 4 2004
hdb: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdb: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!
[root@localhost root]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: DIAMOND Model: 080G 2F5400 Rev: RAMC
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
[root@localhost root]# lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0409:006a NEC Corp.
[root@localhost root]#

Does nobody have an answer for me about where to find my USB hard drive? Or how to mount it? There must be hundreds od people out there with external drives. C'mon.

Create a folder as root under /mnt, say, mkdir /mnt/usb1
then mount the device sda1 or sda2 using mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb1 (you might have to specify the format in which case you you the -t option as in mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb1).

Ok, I just upgraded to fedora core three and the problem was solved. Also it reads my mp3/usb pen drive properly my usb 2.0 pcmcia card and my digital camera. All things fc1 couldn't seem to get done (even with the 2.6.9 upgrade). One weird thing now, though, is that my audio has gone haywire.

Yeah, audio has been a problem with FC2 and FC3. I had to recompile the kernel to get audio working on my computers.