Topic: Mounting USB Drive

[irian]

SME 6.0.1, USB2 ExternalCase with 200GB Drive.
Unformatted drive.

I followed these instructions:
http://no.longer.valid/phpwiki/index.php/How%20to%20connect%20a%20USB%20Hard%20Disk%20to%20SME%206.0.1-01

When I come to point 3: mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/backup.

I get this error: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device

What do I need to do to get this working?
Please help.

Martijn

[RobH]

Hi!

Did the line;
"cdrecord --scanbus"

show that it could see your external drive?


Rob.

[irian]

Yes it did.

I installed backup2ws and that works like a charm.
For now that is good enough.
I am in one of our offices in Russia now and will leave 2morrow.
I will look into this again later.

Thanks a lot for your reply.

Martijn

[RobH]

ok!

Let me know when you get back, and i'll give you a hand sorting it!

Rob.