On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 11:21, Ged Haywood wrote: > Hi there, > > On 12 Feb 2003, Thomas Zauner wrote: > > > hi i just got an external mass storage with usb-2 and firewire. > > it is just a plastic box with a MAXTOR 40G HD in it. > > > > first i opened the box took out the hd and hooked it up to a normal ide controller >on my mainboard, > > to put partiton tables on it and created the filesystems. > > actually 3 partitions , 2 ext2 and 1 ntfs. > > (fdisk and then mkfs.ext3) > > > > i connected it up to an usb-1 port on my M$-natural keybord > > (just to test it , i dont have an usb-2 port yet ). > > > > then i modprobed the usb-stroage module > > > > But i cant mount it becuse i don't know the right /dev/??? > > i understand that he uses a scsi dev like cd-riters. > > Try /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda3 > > Dunno if you need any more modules, looks OK to me. > > 73, > Ged. > >
same for 0,2,3 [root@Tom1 linux-2.4]# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/storage mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device and should that give me the partition table , or doesn't that workk for scsi'ed dev's? [root@Tom1 linux-2.4]# fdisk /dev/sda Unable to open /dev/sda ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-users
