Re: USB hard drive - external///

zed wrote:

[ 78.185029] usb 2-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address
4
[ 78.319346] usb 2-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 78.327074] scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 78.333100] usb-storage: device found at 4
[ 78.333105] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 83.332290] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 83.335039] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access HTS54104 0G9AT00 0811 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 83.342519] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] 78140160 512-byte hardware sectors (40008
MB)
[ 83.345515] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
[ 83.345518] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 83.349528] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] 78140160 512-byte hardware sectors (40008
MB)
[ 83.352514] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Test WP failed, assume Write Enabled
[ 83.352517] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 83.352522] sdd:
[ 83.702543] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI disk
[ 83.702583] sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg5 type 0

That looks like it's attached it to /dev/sdd but whatever desktop you're using isn't automatically mounting it.

You can mount it manually by doing something like:

mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt/1

where "/mnt/1" is some empty directory that already exists. You can create /mnt/1, say, yourself and use that. Assuming there's only one partition on the external hdd, that should get you access to your files.

If you want to make it automatically mount external hard drives when they're plugged in then, somewhere in the menus you should be able to find a way of configuring external device management. I can't tell you exactly where this is, because (in gnome under Fedora, at least) it seems to keep moving around - and i've got no idea about any other desktop.

I have to say that there doesn't appear to be any way of turning this behaviour on and off in the version of gnome in Fedora 9 - although maybe i just haven't been able to find it!



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