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

I only recently have done similar.

cat /proc/scsi/usb-storage-0/0
   Host scsi0: usb-storage
       Vendor: Cypress Semiconductor
      Product: USB2.0 Storage Device
Serial Number: 000000030515
     Protocol: Transparent SCSI
    Transport: Bulk
         GUID: 04b468300000000000030515
     Attached: Yes

Have a look at fdisk -l it should list all partitions known. It may not necessarily show up as sda, since you have a scsi CD writer allready.

Once you know the sdx (I'd guess it will be /dev/sdb1 or something) you could add to /etc/fstab:

/dev/sdb1               /mnt/my_usb_hd         auto    noauto,owner,rw 0 0
 Make a directory /mnt/my_usb_hd of course..

Then mount with 'mount /mnt/my_usb_hd' .

That's how I did it. I also played around with /etc/security/console.perms and setup so that an ordinary user could mount my disk.

Cheers,
Michael