Topic: USB Storage support

[William Wong]

It would be nice to be able to attach USB Storage , for instance, an IDE harddisk housed in a USB Storage box.  I know that during the bootup process, USB storage support is in console message, however, I couldn't find further info to mount it properly.

I did try to mount it but no success.  So this is not strictly a utterly new thing but as a wish that some one would shed some light on how to make it happen.


Thank you



William

[Greg O]

I'm looking for exactly the same thing, and it was hinted at in http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=20007.msg78665#msg78665

Have you had any leads? I'm kinda hoping for USB2 support...

[Michael Herger]

Hi!

I've not yet got a lot of experience with this topic but just got my MP3 player mounted directly to my e-smith box...

- first create a directory to mount your new fs (eg. /mnt/usb)
- plug your device
- load the kernel module for usb storage devices: insmod usb-storage
- usb storage is used as a SCSI device. Therefore do a "mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb" to mount your drive

This is only the basics. If you have other SCSI or USB devices connected the device name (/dev/sda1) can be different. The "-t vfat" depends on the used fs, too.

Good luck and let us know whether you succeed in doing your backup that way!

Regards,

Michael

[Charlie Brady]

Michael Herger wrote:

> - usb storage is used as a SCSI device. Therefore do a "mount
> -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb" to mount your drive
>
> This is only the basics. If you have other SCSI or USB
> devices connected the device name (/dev/sda1) can be
> different. The "-t vfat" depends on the used fs, too.

... and is probably not required. Try just "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb".
Usually works for me (for my digital camera).

Regards

Charlie

[Henrik]

did anyone get a extern USB HD mounted and working?

[Michael Herger]

I did it exactly the way I wrote in my first posting with my Archos Jukebox. It's essentially a MP3 player but connects as a USB2 (or firewire) harddisk.

Michael

[Laurent DINCLAUX]

How to automates the #insmode usb-storage command ?

[Charlie Brady]

Laurent DINCLAUX wrote:
 
> How to automates the #insmode usb-storage command ?

Firstly, you may find it's more useful to always use the modprobe command. modprobe knows about inter-module dependencies, and pre-loads any required modules.

You can automate the loading of usb-storage module via the "hotplug" command. I don't know the details, so you'll have to research the topic yourself. You'll probably need an entry specific to your device in one of /etc/hotplug/usb.*map.

Charlie