Mounting External HDD
 

Hi,

I have plugged in my USB External Hard Drive into my FC3 laptop, and it doesn't mount automatically. Please may someone tell me what command I need to issue into terminal to mount my Ext. HDD? Thanks, it's quite urgent.

J_K9

try fdisk -l to see if the device/partitions are visible.
If they are use the mount command.
mount /dev/sd?? /<path_to_mount_point>
This is a temporary mount available only until next reboot.
For a more permanent mount use /etc/fstab.
Be aware that a device may not always appear at the same position on USB and therefore permanent mounts may be tricky.

Thanks for replying gerardt, but when I type in "fdisk -l" it just says that bash has an error because fdisk does not exist! Do you know of anything else I can do? Thanks,

[EDIT]
But if I type n "man fdisk", the man file comes up!
[/EDIT]

J_K9

you need to be logged in as root to run the fdisk command. But only use the -l option as it can destroy partition information.

Here is the result of my fdisk -l (I'm sorry it took so long but I haven't managed to get my FC3 laptop onto my home network yet).

Oh, by the way, I am dualbooting between SUSE 9.1 and FC3 just in case you're confused, and I accidentally made two swaps...

J_K9

P.S I'm sorry about the formatting

if the drive was visible we would see it in this output as a sd device.

One last try. try lsusb and see if it returns anything.

Is the device by any chance a maxtor?

Here is the result:

That's right, because my hard drive is a LaCie Mobile Hard Drive. Thanks again,

J_K9

Try "mount /dev/sd?1 /mnt" where ? is the device number alphabetically
001=a 002=b etc.

I tried what you said:
I also tried "/dev/sda1" (even though that's not what you said) and that didn't work either? Do you have any more ideas? Thanks for your help so far,

J_K9

Note: this is what I would do in Slackware, not sure about FC* but worth a try...

open a console window and as root enter (without the ' ' )
'tail -f /var/log/messages'
Then plug it in and some messages should appear telling you where the device has been recognised, then use that info to mount the drive.

For some reason I have a USB drive showing up a sr0 , but this method helped me mount it :)

I am a newb, but I hope this helps :)

I think it might be "scsi0" so I'm going to try and mount that now!

[EDIT]
No, scsi0 doesn't exist. I'll copy out all the messages but it might take a while!
[/EDIT]

J_K9

The funny thing is that the update rpm for "udev" is on the hard disk! If I write it onto a CD-RW and install it do you think it might work? Thanks in advance,

J_K9

Sorry for triple posting, but:

Now that I have installed the new udev, this is the result of "tail -f /var/log/messages" when I plug in my LaCie External Hard Drive:
And then slightly later on...
The only problem remaining is - 1) Is it already mounted? If so, where? - or 2) If it isn't mounted, how do I mount it? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again,

J_K9

I'm having the exact same problem, same exact error messages! I'm trying to get external USB Maxtor 40gb drive working.

Mar 30 17:35:02 oxygen su(pam_unix)[22644]: session opened for user root by ig(uid=500)
Mar 30 17:35:54 oxygen kernel: usb 1-8: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 11
Mar 30 17:35:54 oxygen kernel: scsi8 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Mar 30 17:35:59 oxygen kernel: Vendor: (l(l(l(l Model: (l(l(l(l(l(l(l(l Rev: 0811
Mar 30 17:35:59 oxygen kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Mar 30 17:35:59 oxygen kernel: SCSI device sda: 678176876 512-byte hdwr sectors (347227 MB)
Mar 30 17:35:59 oxygen kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Mar 30 17:35:59 oxygen kernel: SCSI device sda: 678176876 512-byte hdwr sectors (347227 MB)
Mar 30 17:35:59 oxygen kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Mar 30 17:36:15 oxygen hal.hotplug[22765]: timout(10000 ms) waiting for /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-8/1-8:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0
Mar 30 17:36:25 oxygen scsi.agent[22776]: Attribute /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-8/1-8:1.0/host8/target8:0:0/8:0:0:0/type does not exist

[root@oxygen ~]# lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 011: ID 05e3:0702 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB 2.0 IDE Adapter
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Any ideas?

Forgot to add the kernel details:

Linux oxygen 2.6.10-1.770_FC3smp #1 SMP Thu Feb 24 14:20:06 EST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux