Mounting Extarnal USB laptop HDD

OhLordy · 08-12-2003, 03:41 AM

Drive (taken from kernel log)
Vendor: Eagle Tec Model: External Hard Di Rev: 0002
Type: Direct Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02

OS: Redhat 8.0

Hi, I recently bought an external laptop HDD and casing so that I could take work home from the office more easily. The device works on my father's windows box, my office windows box, and my boss's Mandrake laptop (a sony, which is apperently very tempremental about USB devices) but will not work on my Red 8 box. These seem to be the relavent lines in the kernal log.

Code:

hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2, assigned device number 3
usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x5e3/0x702) is not claimed by any active driver.
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
  Vendor: EagleTec  Model: External Hard Di  Rev: 0002
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
USB Mass Storage device found at 3
USB Mass Storage support registered.
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 39070080 512-byte hdwr sectors (20004 MB)
sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
 sda: sda1
SCSI device (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
SCSI device sda: 39070080 512-byte hdwr sectors (20004 MB)
sda: test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
 sda: I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
 unable to read partition table
 I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.18, 14 May 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. My machine is about 3 years old now and I can get the spec if that would help.

Thanks in advance
Rob

henk156 · 09-05-2003, 03:21 PM

hi,
has anyone solved this problem yet?
I'm getting exactly the same errors
using kernel 2.4.18 (SuSE 8.0) and really don't know what to do ...
regards,
Henk

sdfernandez · 09-19-2003, 03:48 PM

I've got almost the same issue here...I'm installing an external drive via usb on RH9...though RH9 recognized the device, i have to create a partition, label it, and mount it initially then update /etc/fstab....however, after I shutdown the system or do a reboot....it's having problem mounting the filesystem i've created from external/usb drive....

anybody here have idea or ideas how to handle this better, I'll appreciates it greatly...

michaelk · 09-20-2003, 04:45 AM

Look at this thread:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...LEGAL+REQUEST.