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Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: Adam Thompson on December 23, 2003, 12:15:38 AM
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I am wondering / Hoping that I will be able to set up an external USB Hard drive to work in Version 6.0.
I did try this with version 5.6 but was not successful. Nor have I ever heard of anyone successfully doing this.
Some help or advice would be greatly appreciated.
Adam
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How did you mount it, and what does fdisk /dev/sda (option p ) print ?
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I was thinking about the same .. How do you mount it .. and then I remembered one thing .. I saw somewhere a few days ago a automount contrib, I wonder if that can be used (????)
I dont now if it could be the autofs modules at dungog ??
http://www.dungog.net/sme/files/index.php
One other problem: What kind of file system at the USB HD ? Ext2/EXT3/FAT32 ??
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http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Linux/Q_20779360.html
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Testing on a 5.6. I'm wondering if this usb hd had not got mounted if it were not because the filesystem of the ntfs were ntfs:
[root@testserver mnt] mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/test
mount: fs type ntfs not supported by kernel
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As my USB hd did not mount because of ntfs a put in a USB memory stick.
I don't know if this have fat 16 or fat 32. (It had the filesystem when I bought it.)
I mounted it with this command: mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test
And then I got connection.
I installed the autofs modules of Dungog, but I think this did not help. (Only for CD/Floppy/Zip).
I also did some experiments loading aditional usb kernel modules using
modprobe and modprobe -l
I don't know if this had any effect or if it were neccesarry.
There were actually one kernel module that were named usb-storage or something like that. Believe i did load that, but don't know if it were neccesarry or not.
Next step .. Will try to find a new usb hd .. Please leave a msg if you make it work with a USB HD !!
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I made a reboot and a new test:
It appeared to be neccesarry to load one kernel module, the usb-storage.
I also made a misprint above /dev/sdb1 should be /dev/sda1
I don't know if the dungog modules is a part of this, I think not.
I think theese are the two commands that is neccessarry to set up the connections (at least it work on a memory stick.)
1. modprobe usb-storage
2. mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/test (Have first set up the /mnt/test directory)
Hope this will work against a hd also. Do you have any ideas about which commands to use for copying over the right and neccessary files (if the connection is there) ?
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I made a reboot and a new test:
It appeared to be neccesarry to load one kernel module, the usb-storage.
I also made a misprint above /dev/sdb1 should be /dev/sda1
I don't know if the dungog modules is a part of this, I think not.
I think theese are the two commands that is neccessarry to set up the connections (at least it work on a memory stick.)
1. modprobe usb-storage
2. mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/test (Have first set up the /mnt/test directory)
Hope this will work against a hd also. Do you have any ideas about which commands to use for copying over the right and neccessary files (if the connection is there) ?
Arne,
I was successful using just the modprobe and mounting commands you suggested. I don't have dungog mods installed so I hope that answers if it was needed or not.
I'm not sure if this would help for copying files but I am using rsysnc -auv to backup all my important data to the external ikebana USB2 drive.
Jpeters