[ltp] Western Digital USB 2.0 Drive

[Peter Theunis]

James,

When you plug-in the drive, syslog should show you something like (my syslog):

Sep 22 11:16:07 stella hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.7-3, assigned address 2
Sep 22 11:16:07 stella scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Sep 22 11:16:07 stella Vendor: IBM-DBCA  Model: -206480           Rev: 0811
Sep 22 11:16:07 stella Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Sep 22 11:16:07 stella Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Sep 22 11:16:07 stella SCSI device sda: 12685680 512-byte hdwr sectors (6495 MB)
				^^^^^^^^^

Sep 22 11:16:07 stella /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
							^^^^^^
Sep 22 11:16:07 stella WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
Sep 22 11:16:07 stella USB Mass Storage device found at 2

This means that there is one partition on that drive and you can mount it the way you pointed out (assuming the filesystem on it is actually vfat).

If you have multiple partitions (3 for example) on the disc you will read:
Sep 22 11:16:07 stella /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 

p
James McKenzie [jjmckenzie51@sprintpcs.com] wrote:
> Joel and the rest of the list:
> 
> What is the mount command?  Something like:
> 
> mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/mynewdrive
> 
> TTIA.
> 
> James McKenzie
> 
> 
> Joel Ebel wrote:
> 
> >It should just be /dev/sda1 as soon as you plug it in, unless you have 
> >any other SCSI or SCSI emulated disks.  hotplug will handle the 
> >modules for you.  In case it doesn't, you'll need usbcore, an HCI 
> >driver for whatever you have, and usb-storage.  Good luck.  It's 
> >fairly simple.
> >
> >Joel
> >
> >James McKenzie wrote:
> >
> >>Listers:
> >>
> >>I picked up a WDC USB 2.0 external drive and would like to use it as 
> >>a backup device.  Anyone have one of these working with RH 8.0 
> >>(2.4.20-20.8)?  If so, could you please pass along any tips.
> >>
> >>Thank you.
> >>
> >>James McKenzie
> >>
> >>
> >
> 
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