Re: Mounting USB Harddisk
hi ya vikas
reposting your reply that seems to be intended to ahve been
to the list based on you last comment asking *us* to help you
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005, Vikas Rawal wrote:
> >you already asked before .. :-)
> >
> I didn't...perhaps somebody else did.
nope ... identical set of questions and format
> I just got my disk yesterday evening, and been struggling!!
that's not a long time to be trying to figure things out
> I did spend a few hours trying to dig something out. But couldn't find a
> solution.
the solutions for usb support is readily available as its one
of a common set of problems for any distro
> It is annoying when somebody posts a question to a mailing
> list without doing any homework.
yupp ...
> It is frustrating when you are atuck, have done homework,
most will say what they have done/read/tried and the urls
and your config files
> and still are subjected to hostility simply because
> you try seeking help.
if this is hostility ... nobody will help you if you dont like
tough questions
> Anyway, thanks for useful questions. I had tried these (taking clues
> from whatever I could get out of google). I am giving the answers in the
> hope that somebody can use them to help.
the only problem, again is ... you didn't reply to the list
and sent a private mail with more questions and shooting the
hand the feeds you so to speak .. cracking up ..
> >are you 100% sure that its vfat format??
> > - did you format it
> >
> Yes, I formatted it as a fat32 partition. Windows XP accesses it all right.
>
> >does your kernel support vfat fs ??
> >
> Yes it does, because it can read a fat32 partition on my internal harddisk.
and you're implying your hard disk is fat32 ... or that your linux box
can see your windoze box ...
> >
> The message log I posted shows that it does see something.
and what was the magic ...
those the you posted previously is worthless ...
it doesn't say your system recognized the usb disk
> "lsmod | sort" shows, among other things,
>
> usbcore 52268 1 [usb-storage ehci-hcd usb-uhci]
> usb-storage 54496 0 (unused)
> usb-uhci 19504 0 (unused)
is says your usb disk is NOT recognized ...for whatever reason
> With my limited knowledge, I thought it meant that the usb modules were
> correctly installed.
>
> Does that give any clue?
installed.. but your usb disk is NOT recognized..
and as someone else previously posted ... what was the output of dmesg
and the entries in syslog for references /dev/hda.. /dev/hdb.. /dev/sda...
-- try not to reply to me privately this time ...
c ya
alvin
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