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Re: iomega 2TB external USB drive



John Lindsay wrote:
> I just picked up an Iomega 2TB external USB drive. It is formatted
> NTSF. When plugged into my Win7 pc it is seen however it does not
> show up on screen under Debian (lenny). Is this drive supported? How
> can I get it seen by debian?

You need to be more specific in your question.  "Seen" is such a
terrible word in a technical sense.  For me that would mean that the
kernel's usb module detected it and logged it to /var/log/syslog.
Please look at the activity in /var/log/syslog and report what is
happening when you insert or remove the usb device.

But I imagine that you are using a GNOME desktop environment (or a KDE
desktop environment) and no icon is appearing on your desktop after
plugging it in?  Is that what is happening for you?  Unfortunately
with those it all depends upon what packages you have installed.
(Personally I despise those types of "happy" extras and disable them
on my machine so I won't be much help for you but at least it will
identify the problem.)  It doesn't mean that your machine isn't
"seeing" the usb device.

Do you have gnome-mount installed?

  $ dpkg -l gnome-mount

Summary: Both *before* and *after* inserting the usb device:

  $ cat /proc/partitions
  $ less /var/log/syslog

Observing any differences will be clues to what is happening.

Bob

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