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Title: Mounting a USB (FAT32 formated) hard drive in SME 6.0?
Post by: f2racer on March 04, 2004, 05:13:05 AM

I just bought a USB enclosure for an older hard drive.  Is there any way to get SME 6.0 to recognize it and mount it?

Thanks!

Title: Re: Mounting a USB (FAT32 formated) hard drive in SME 6.0?
Post by: jpeters on March 05, 2004, 01:46:30 AM

Quote from: "f2racer"

I just bought a USB enclosure for an older hard drive.  Is there any way to get SME 6.0 to recognize it and mount it?

Thanks!

Assuming SME recognized the USB controller, (check lsmod command) you could then use fdisk -l command and see if the USB drive shows up -- usually as /dev/sda1. If it doesn't show up, then type fdisk /dev/sda then 'p' option to see how it is setup.

Then mount the drive to anyplace you want such as mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

For automatic mounts change the /etc/fstab file. This isn't truly a plug and play feature just mounts at boot time so USB drive might have to be on and connected.

SME should recognize fat32, as that is how mine is setup.  I'm not near my SME box so and I don't recall which mod is for USB2.

Good luck.

Jeff

Title: Mounting a USB (FAT32 formated) hard drive in SME 6.0?
Post by: f2racer on March 05, 2004, 03:31:57 AM

The server (Celeron 1000Mhz in a 810 microatx motherboard) only has USB 1.1, so I'm guessing it's one of these:

usb-uhci               24676   0  (unused)
usbcore                73792   1  [usb-uhci]

I'll try mounting the drive tomorrow.

Thanks!

Title: Mounting a USB (FAT32 formated) hard drive in SME 6.0?
Post by: jpeters on March 05, 2004, 03:46:43 AM

See also
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=9295.msg82465#msg82465

for more info.