On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 23:43 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: > However, my issue now is trying to get an external Iomega 250 gig usb > hard drive to work. > > I've tried googling for information as well as looking in the archives. > However, all the information is old. For instance, it tells me that usb > peripherals are recognized ad scsi devices, which is true in for my zip > drive, which is sda4.
yep, afaik. > However, /dev appears to have changed and there > are no longer multiple choices like sda1, etc. really? Is there a filesystem on this device already? ie. is it formatted? If not, then you will only see /dev/sda. When it's formatted you will see /dev/sda[1..n] depending on how many partitions are on it. > Regardless, if I modify fstab to read /dev/usb and save the file, a > window will pop up saying that an unmounted hard drive has been > detected. However, if I try to mount it I'm told that /dev/usb is not a > block device. I don't think /dev/usb is the right device... unless you have some udev rule setting up /dev/usb... I don't even have a /dev/usb! So, if it's not formatted yet, then just run fdisk /dev/sdx to create a partition, then you should see /dev/sdx1 Also, you could provide udev and kernel versions. HTH, -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> To do nothing is to be nothing. -- [email protected] mailing list
