On Sunday 28 January 2007, Ian Harrell wrote: > Hello, > > I am using Suse 10.0 and have an external USB Western Digital 300G > harddrive. When I plug the USB cable in and have the drive turned on I get > the following in /var/log/messages: > > Server kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address > 4 > Server kernel: hiddev96: USB HID v1.10 Device [Western Digital External HDD] > on usb-0000:00:07.2-1 > > The problem is that I cannot figure out how to mount the drive nor access > it.
I have the same device and it works perfectly on 10.2 and 9.3. Usually Kde pops up and offers to mount it on /media/sda1 After confirming it shows up in /etc/mtab as /dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk reiserfs rw,nosuid,nodev,sync 0 0 Here is a section of my log after the drive was plugged in. (Note: Since I use this on Linux only, I nuked the vfat partition on the drive and formatted it with reiserfs to allow larger than 4gig files. I uses it for large backup files). It works flawlessly. Jan 28 13:32:21 pen kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 Jan 28 13:32:21 pen kernel: usb 1-1: new device found, idVendor=1058, idProduct=0901 Jan 28 13:32:21 pen kernel: usb 1-1: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 Jan 28 13:32:21 pen kernel: usb 1-1: Product: External HDD Jan 28 13:32:21 pen kernel: usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Western Digital Jan 28 13:32:21 pen kernel: usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 57442D5743414E4D37333735373933 Jan 28 13:32:21 pen kernel: usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Jan 28 13:32:22 pen kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... Jan 28 13:32:22 pen kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Jan 28 13:32:22 pen kernel: usb-storage: device found at 3 Jan 28 13:32:22 pen kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Jan 28 13:32:22 pen kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage Jan 28 13:32:22 pen kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. Jan 28 13:32:27 pen kernel: Vendor: WD Model: 1600JB External Rev: 0107 Jan 28 13:32:27 pen kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 Jan 28 13:32:27 pen kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete Jan 28 13:32:27 pen kernel: SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB) Jan 28 13:32:27 pen kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Jan 28 13:32:27 pen kernel: sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 Jan 28 13:32:27 pen kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through Jan 28 13:32:27 pen kernel: SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB) Jan 28 13:32:27 pen kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Jan 28 13:32:27 pen kernel: sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 Jan 28 13:32:27 pen kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through Jan 28 13:32:27 pen kernel: sda: sda1 Jan 28 13:32:27 pen kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda Jan 28 13:32:27 pen kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 Jan 28 13:32:29 pen kernel: ReiserFS: sda1: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal Jan 28 13:32:44 pen kernel: ReiserFS: sda1: using ordered data mode Jan 28 13:32:44 pen kernel: reiserfs: using flush barriers Jan 28 13:32:44 pen kernel: ReiserFS: sda1: journal params: device sda1, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30 Jan 28 13:32:44 pen kernel: ReiserFS: sda1: checking transaction log (sda1) Jan 28 13:32:44 pen kernel: ReiserFS: sda1: replayed 5 transactions in 0 seconds Jan 28 13:32:44 pen kernel: ReiserFS: sda1: Using r5 hash to sort names -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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