Topic: USB 2.0 HDD can not be mounted to SME Server 7.4

[Hakan]

Hello,

I am neither an experienced nor skilled person on Linux server software. I have installed SME 7.4 for a friend of mine since we fed up with MS Windows products, just do not advertise it please, I am a former MCSE 2K . This is the short story anyway...

So we liked SME 7.4 a lot but about backup, we have a problem. I have searched through internet a lot but could not find a way to attach usb 2.0 hdd since it is not recognised by os, backup is not working. USB HDD has 500GB capacity and 2.5' type. It has no seperate electrical source. I can not find a exact match so I had to write here if the hdd can be mounted successfuly then I may progress about to try backup the data on server. The disk is healthy and works on windows xp, I then formatted it with ext3 and plugged it to the server. But when I give "mount" command the drive do not be recognised.

Any help will highly appreciated,
Thanks in advance,

[Stefano]

hi, welcome here

log in in shell as root and do:

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tail -f /var/log/messages

plug in your usb disk: you should see some messages on the screen.. you should be able to see how your server sees the external disk (something /dev/sdX)

then, hit ctrl-C and give:

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fdisk -l /dev/sdX

and report here the result, thank you