Re: USB 2.5" enclosure

Jeff Allison wrote:

As the USB question has arisen I thought I might try thing one again.

I've got a USB 2.5" HD enclosure with a 3 GB disk in it

cat /proc/scsi/usb-storage-0/0 shows

[root@leyton scsi]# cat /proc/scsi/usb-storage-0/0 Host scsi0: usb-storage
Vendor: Genesyslogic
Product: USB Mass Storage
Serial Number: None
Protocol: Transparent SCSI
Transport: Bulk
GUID: 05e307020000000000000000
Attached: Yes

cat /proc/scsi/scsi

shows only the CD writer

/var/log/messages shows

Dec 18 10:56:17 leyton kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-1, assigned
address 14
Dec 18 10:56:21 leyton kernel: usb.c: USB device 14 (vend/prod
0x5e3/0x702) is not claimed by any active driver.
Dec 18 10:56:24 leyton kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Dec 18 10:56:24 leyton kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
Dec 18 10:56:24 leyton kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass
Storage devices
Dec 18 10:56:24 leyton kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
Dec 18 10:56:27 leyton devlabel: devlabel service started/restarted

the problem is that I cannot mount the drive any ideas

Jeff

Have partition(s) been created? If not try fdisk /dev/sda
Verify that there are no partitions so you have the right disk, then create at least one partition on the drive and set the partition type according to how you intend to use it. After writing that and exiting fdisk don't forget to create a filesystem on that partition, which would be /dev/sda1. If there is already a partition, then try mounting /dev/sda1 somewhere. It probably exists.

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