[ltp] Trying to Mount USB hard drive

[Marius Gedminas]

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On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 09:34:13PM -0700, Mendel Cooper wrote:
> Thanks, guys, for all the help in mounting a USB flash drive. It's
> working fine now.
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> My success with that encouraged me to once again try to mount a 3.5" hard
> drive in a USB enclosure. Hey, I figured I could maybe try mounting it on
> /dev/sda1, just like the flash drive.

You can use fdisk -l /dev/sda to see how the disk is partitioned.

Note that the kernel does not automatically reread the partition table
when you plug in a different USB mass storage device than you had
plugged in before.  Sometimes you have to nudge it by calling sfdisk -R
/dev/sda (or fdisk -z /dev/sda).

> Well . . . It was about one-quarter part successful. The drive mounted,
> but the system only recognized the first four cylinders of it. So,
> I got 32 usable MB on an 8 GB drive. Even with fdisk, only 32 MB were
> accessible.
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> And then that temporarily messed up the USB port. The CDR burner in a
> USB enclosure wasn't recognized. The USB flash drive wouldn't mount. I
> had to do a hardware reset, i.e., a reboot to fix all that up.
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> I figure that maybe /dev/sda1 isn't the right device for a USB hard drive.
> Can anyone help on this?

I'm not sure what your problems were caused by.  I have used a hard disk
in an external enclosure -- it worked the same way a USB flash memory
key works.

Marius Gedminas
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