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Hi Colleen |
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if you type "dmesg" as root when you plug your usb device you can view |
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what device is attached to it |
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hope this help |
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On 7/10/06, Colleen Beamer <colleen.beamer@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I've just upgraded to modular X, KDE 3.5 and installed a new CD-RW |
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> drive. My system is back to working flawlessly. |
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> However, my issue now is trying to get an external Iomega 250 gig usb |
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> hard drive to work. |
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> I've tried googling for information as well as looking in the archives. |
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> However, all the information is old. For instance, it tells me that usb |
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> peripherals are recognized ad scsi devices, which is true in for my zip |
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> drive, which is sda4. However, /dev appears to have changed and there |
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> are no longer multiple choices like sda1, etc. |
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> Regardless, if I modify fstab to read /dev/usb and save the file, a |
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> window will pop up saying that an unmounted hard drive has been |
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> detected. However, if I try to mount it I'm told that /dev/usb is not a |
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> block device. |
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> This is the output from lsusb: |
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> lsusb |
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> Bus 002 Device 003: ID 059b:0035 Iomega Corp. |
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> Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8086:1122 Intel Corp. |
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> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 |
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> Bus 001 Device 003: ID 03f0:0604 Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 840c |
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> Bus 001 Device 002: ID 03f0:0605 Hewlett-Packard ScanJet 2200c |
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> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 |
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> |
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> I've tried various combinations of /dev/usb (ie 2,3, etc) and /dev/scsi, |
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> but I can't get the drive to mount so I can put a file system on it. |
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> And from the above, I have no idea what Bus 002 Device 002 is unless it |
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> refers to the external hard drive, which is an Iomega. The Bus 002 |
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> Device 3 is my zip drive and on Bus 001, the peripherals are self |
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> explanatory. |
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> I don't want to do anything to fancy - it doesn't have to boot, I just |
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> want it for my ripped music files. |
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> Any help would be appreciated. |
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> Regards, |
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> Colleen |
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> Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org |
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