About USB enclosure

satimis · 10-05-2006, 01:41 PM

Hi folks,

FC5_64

Just install an USB enclosure (ATA HD)

# fdisk -l
did not find it.

Please advise how to get it installed. TIA

B.R.
satimis

David the H. · 10-05-2006, 08:49 PM

What does lsusb say?

Do dmesg or udevmonitor show any action when it's plugged in?

Are you sure the hard drive is working and formatted?

satimis · 10-05-2006, 09:59 PM

Hi David the H.

Tks for your advice.

Problem solved after running

# fdisk /dev/sdb
to remove partition.

Then ran
# mke2fs -j /dev/sdb

Now the USB enclosure can be detected whenever plugin

# cp /home/satimis/enclosure.txt /media/disk/
# ls /media/disk/

Code:

enclosure.txt  lost+found

It is now ok

As user
$ cp enclosure.txt /media/disk/

Code:

cp: cannot create regular file `/media/disk/enclosure.txt': Permission denied

I can't copy file on the USB enclosure but I can read it.

Where can I set the permission. TIA

Quote:

What does lsusb say?

# lsusb
bash: lsusb: command not found

Which package I need to install? TIA

Quote:

udevmonitor show any action when it's plugged in?

# udevmonitor
bash: udevmonitor: command not found

Which package I need to install? TIA

# yum list udev

Code:

Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up repositories
core                                                                 [1/3]
core                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
updates                                                              [2/3]
updates                   100% |=========================| 1.2 kB    00:00
extras                                                               [3/3]
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 411 kB    00:05
updates   : ################################################## 1084/1084
Added 189 new packages, deleted 220 old in 3.89 seconds
primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 1.5 MB    00:10
extras    : ################################################## 5211/5211
Added 63 new packages, deleted 35 old in 6.62 seconds
Installed Packages
udev.x86_64                              084-13.fc5.2           installed

It is there?

B.R.
satimis

David the H. · 10-06-2006, 03:34 AM

Glad to hear you got it working.

Permissions can be set during mounting or in /etc/fstab, usually by adding the 'user' option. But if you use automounting, it probably will require placing options somewhere else, and I'm not sure what you'd need to do.

(That's one current annoyance with Linux; there's no single, standard way to automount devices right now.)

lsusb is part of usbutils. At least that's the package name under Debian.

You'll only have udevmonitor if you're using udev, which most recent systems do, but older ones may not. It can only be run as root by default in any case (/usr/sbin/udevmonitor). When running, it displays what's happening as you add or remove devices and the /dev entries that get created or removed in response.

satimis · 10-07-2006, 07:20 AM

Hi David the H.,

Tks for your advice.

Quote:

Permissions can be set during mounting or in /etc/fstab, usually by adding the 'user' option. But if you use automounting, it probably will require placing options somewhere else, and I'm not sure what you'd need to do.

I'll use the USB enclosure as portatble storage device on WindowsPC and LinuxPC, but having not figured out following points;

1) FAT32 is running on My WindowsPC, therefore I'm prepared to format USB enclosure as FAT32 system. However can files on ext2/ext3 system be copied/edited on FAT32 system?

2) Can I run following commands to format the enclosure without going to WindowPC?

Code:

# mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sdb

TIA

Quote:

lsusb is part of usbutils. At least that's the package name under Debian.

I have the package installed.

# lsusb

Code:

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 045e:00b9 Microsoft Corp. Wireless Optical Mouse 3.0
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

About "udevmonitor"
# which udevmonitor

Code:

/usr/sbin/udevmonitor

It is already running.

# udevmonitor

Code:

udevmonitor prints the received event from the kernel [UEVENT]
and the event which udev sends out after rule processing [UDEV]
-

It only hung here.

# udevmonitor --env

Code:

udevmonitor prints the received event from the kernel [UEVENT]
and the event which udev sends out after rule processing [UDEV]
-

It also hung here

Others noted with tks.

B.R.
satimis