On 08/19/2010 03:00 PM, David Spencer, Internet Handyman wrote: > I had an old eMachines computer sitting at my office doing nothing so I > decided to put it to work. I installed CentOS workstation on it this morning. > Now I have a fun little Linux machine for my personal use. > > However, I more in mind than just building a playground computer. I had > some SATA drives that I wanted to mount in external USB 2 enclosures and > pull off some files. I plugged the enclosure into one of the USB ports on > the computer and no reaction. Nothing. So I started to doubt that the USB > was working, so I stuck in a thumb drive that I had. Normally, when I > stick my thumb drive into my Mac, there's a light that comes on and the > drive is mounted on the desktop. But once again, nothing. No lights, no > autosense, nada. > > So how do I figure this out guys? If I do directory of /dev I see four > usbdev stubs (or whatever they're called) so I know that something USB > was installed. Where should I start? > > > -- Dave Spencer, PageWeavers
Start with: lsusb Which will list all usb devices that are plugged in. CentOS which is really meant as a server distro probably doesn't auto-mount usb devices. Some might say that action would be a security risk on a server. So you will probably have to mount it yourself. So the next step is (might need to be run as root or sudo) fdisk -l Which should list drives attached. That will give you enough information to try and mount a drive. See: man mount for more info. Enjoy, Alex _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
