External USB hard drive
I am running SUSE and I am trying to set up an USB harddrive.
As root I modified /etc/fstab, I added the following line: '/dev/sda1 /media/usb1 vfat noauto,root,rw, 0 0' Then I restarted the system and tried to mount the harddrive, this is the outcoming message: 'mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device'. It seems sda1 is not the right device, but how can I find the proper device name and make it work?. Thanks in advance |
I think my problem is that I don't have the 'lsmod' installed.
How can I install this module?. |
lsmod isn't a module it is a command to list installed modules.
Try /sbin/lsmod So what modules are being loaded? usb-storage usbcore uhci scsi_mod The output of dmesg will indicate if the OS finds the drive and if it assigns a device id to it. If is the only SCSI device and or USB memory device then it will be /dev/sda |
You are right. I read dmesg and it says:
USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 2. Then it says USB disconnected on device 2. I have two USB ports (i don't have anything else connected there) and I have tried both, I also have tried sdaX where X is 0,1,..., and sdbX, and I get the message about devrice block. ANy ideas?. |
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