[TriLUG] USB portable hard drive

[Ryan Leathers]

Thanks for the reply

I already went to the offsite host and found that when I plugged the USB
device in I could see some info in /proc/bus/usb/devices

I took a swag and tried to mount /dev/sdb1 to /mnt/usb which worked like
a charm.  The drive has a fat32 partition and I didnt have to do
anything more than mount it and cp files around.

Next time I will take your suggestion and look under /proc/scsi so maybe
I won't have to guess on the next system.

On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 10:39, sholton at mindspring.com wrote:
> 1) Choose a file system for the hard disk which is supported under the
>  kernel you're running. If it works under Windows, you're probably okay,
> but I've heard the native file systems under XP can be a problem...
> 
> 2) Use the info from /proc/scsi to determine where the device 'landed'
> when you plugged it in.
> 
> Take a look at:
>    http://www.universalsmartdrive.net/standard/manual.htm#5-3
> 
> for generic info.
> 
> 3) Use the "auto" option in /etc/fstab for automatic mounting.
> 4) Use the "user" option to allow the files to be accessed by someone other
> than root.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Leathers <ryan.leathers at globalknowledge.com>
> Sent: Jan 14, 2004 9:36 AM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: [TriLUG] USB portable hard drive
> 
> I have a USB portable hard drive (WD400B005-RNN) that is plugged into a
> W2K machine.  I'd like to take this drive to another location and plug
> it into a machine running RHEL-AS 2.1
> 
> Any tips tricks or troubles I should know about before I give this a go?
> 
> -- 
> Ryan Leathers <ryan.leathers at globalknowledge.com>
> Global Knowledge
> 
> 
> -- 
> Steve Holton
sholton at mindspring.com
-- 
Ryan Leathers <ryan.leathers at globalknowledge.com>
Global Knowledge
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