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Title: Need to find a "How To" for USB Hard Drive on SME
Post by: BobWilliams on August 10, 2004, 06:30:53 PM: Can anyone tell me where to find a "How To" for connecting a USB hard disk to SME 6.0.1-01? I have checked all the How To's on this site and can't seem to fine what I need.
Thanks

Bob...
Title: Re: Need to find a "How To" for USB Hard Drive on
Post by: psoren on September 15, 2004, 07:56:12 PM: Quote from: "BobWilliams"
Can anyone tell me where to find a "How To" for connecting a USB hard disk to SME 6.0.1-01? I have checked all the How To's on this site and can't seem to fine what I need.
Thanks

Bob...

If you still don't know, i can tell you how i did :-)

1. Plug it in !!
2. "cdrecord --scanbus"
Gives the output:

Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
scsibus1:
1,0,0 100) 'IBM-DJSA' '-210 ' '0811' Disk
1,1,0 101) *
1,2,0 102) *
1,3,0 103) *
1,4,0 104) *
1,5,0 105) *
1,6,0 106) *
1,7,0 107) *

Which tells me that it can see the disk.

3.Mount the disk:
Make a mount point: "mkdir /mnt/usbdrive" or whatever you like. You can also mount to an ibay.
"mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive"

4. Make the filesystem (format):
"mkdosfs -F32 /dev/sda1" for a windows partition (trouble with some files and symlinks!).
"mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1" for an extended3 Linux partition.

5. Start filling it up!

Per
Title: Need to find a "How To" for USB Hard Drive on SME
Post by: baw on November 19, 2004, 10:39:18 PM: I went through the steps listed in the posting. I then tiied using the rsync command to copy files from the root drive to the usb drive.

It looked like everything worked ok. I then took the usb drive too a XP machine to verify that files had been copied and nothing was on the drive.

If I use rsync -auv source /mnt/usbdrive, shouldn't the files be copied to the external hard drive?

Thanks.
Title: Need to find a "How To" for USB Hard Drive on SME
Post by: mdo on November 20, 2004, 07:07:24 AM: Bob

I just tried somethig similar, using a USB stick rather than a HDD. In the first instance, Windows did not show any of the files/folders that I had created on the stick. I connected the stick back to the server and mounted the stick and my formerly created files/folders were there! I then unmounted the stick, went back to Windows and this time I could see everything.
I would try that.
Regards,
Michael
Title: Can't see Iomega HDD USB
Post by: rshiras on February 25, 2006, 11:12:01 PM: I have a 250GB Iomega HDD USB desktop drive.
cdrecord --scanbus
scsibus1:
1,0,0 100) 'TDK ' 'CDRW161040X ' '5.32' Removable CD-ROM
1,1,0 101) *
1,2,0 102) *
1,3,0 103) *
1,4,0 104) *
1,5,0 105) *
1,6,0 106) *
1,7,0 107) *
I can see the CD/Rom, but no USB devices.
What should I try next?
Title: Re: Can't see Iomega HDD USB
Post by: psoren on February 26, 2006, 10:53:05 AM: Quote from: "rshiras"
I have a 250GB Iomega HDD USB desktop drive.
cdrecord --scanbus
scsibus1:
1,0,0 100) 'TDK ' 'CDRW161040X ' '5.32' Removable CD-ROM
1,1,0 101) *
1,2,0 102) *
1,3,0 103) *
1,4,0 104) *
1,5,0 105) *
1,6,0 106) *
1,7,0 107) *
I can see the CD/Rom, but no USB devices.
What should I try next?

If you are using SME7 it works different.
When you have your USB drive connected, look in /etc/fstab if it has an entry there. If not you can add it. It will probably be sda1.
Then you just mount it:
mount /mnt/usbdisk (if that's your mount point in fstab)

Per
Title: How to connect a USB Hard Drive to SME 6.0.1
Post by: BobWilliams on February 27, 2006, 08:37:29 PM: Search this forum for "How to connect a USB Hard Disk to SME 6.0.1-01"
The author is "psoren".
That works for version 6. I don't know about any other version.
Hope this helps.

Bob...