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Old 09-12-2004, 06:17 PM   #1
sohare
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Kanguru External Hard Drive


My uncle gave me his old Powerbook Pismo. Nice machine, smalish harddrive by current standards.

I got and installed Yellow Dog Linux 3.0.1. No problems.

I also purchased a Kanguru 2.5" portable External Hard Drive. It has firewire, USB 2, parallel and one other connection type. Bought Kanguru's proprietary firewire and usb cables. Proprietary in the sense that the cable has a proprietary connection to the drive itself. The other end of the cable is plain ole' usb or firewire.

Basically, I can't access the drive. Part of it I am sure is the fact I am still a newbie with Linux.

Here's some more details. In the hardware manager the drive showed up fine. Listed under /dev/sda as sda1. This is using the USB connection.

Try for the life of me, I could not mount it. At first I thought it was just my ignoranec, but I searched these forums and apparently someone else had a similar problem awhile back. The issue I do not think was ever resolved with said person, but there was mention that the usb cable needed OS specific drivers and there were none for Linux.

Additionally, I can't even get the drive to be recognized when it is plugged into the firewire port, and after rebooting it wasn't even being recognized while in the usb port.

Drive worked fine under both Windows and OS 9.1.

Any suggestions? (Keep in mind, I'm fairly new with Linux).

Thanks in advance,

Shawn
 
Old 09-12-2004, 07:06 PM   #2
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I spoke too soon!

Actually mounted just fine.

However, I can't for the life of me figure out how to make the dir I mounted it to accessible by my user account. The file system on the external hard drive is fat32, perhaps this is the problem?

I try chmod 777 /mnt/(harddrive)

But I am told that the operation is not permitting.

So how can I make this drive accessible by my normal user account?
 
  


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