Re: USB hard drive - external///

[Will Kemp <will@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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