Re: [SLUG] USB external disk - what am I missing?

2003-01-22 Thread Peter Hardy
On 22 Jan 2003 18:12:10 +1100, Andrew Fries [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: EagleTec Model: External Hard Di Rev: 0002 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 This looks like the device described at http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=1303 ,

Re: [SLUG] USB external disk - what am I missing?

2003-01-22 Thread Andrew Fries
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 20:15, Peter Hardy wrote: This looks like the device described at http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=1303 , but I can't be sure without checking the device ID. Use lsusb from a sommand line, or the usbview tool to get the ID for your drive and compare. yes,

Re: [SLUG] USB external disk - what am I missing?

2003-01-22 Thread Peter Hardy
On 22 Jan 2003 20:40:48 +1100, Andrew Fries [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jan 22 20:32:55 senator kernel: WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured That's fairly normal. I've seen the same message on my zip drive, and USB floppy and memorystick drives. Haven't lost any data since the

Re: [SLUG] USB external disk - what am I missing?

2003-01-22 Thread Ben Buxton
Peter Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following thing: On 22 Jan 2003 20:40:48 +1100, Andrew Fries [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jan 22 20:32:55 senator kernel: WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured That's fairly normal. I've seen the same message on my zip drive, and USB

Re: [SLUG] USB external disk - what am I missing?

2003-01-21 Thread Andrew Fries
On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 18:27, Terry Collins wrote: Just a guess, but if it has two partions, you'll want numbers. but I'm trying to use fdisk, (so I can repartition it) and according to my understanding, and also according to man page for fdisk, the format is fdisk device, not fdisk partition?