On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Andrew Robinson wrote: > I have recently acquired a Western Digital EIDE 80 GB hard drive. > Separately, I acquired an external USB enclosure. I would like to get > the hard drive working in the enclosure to provide myself with some > portable disk space. > > First question: is it possible to initialize a hard drive in an USB > external enclosure? I haven't figured out how to do so from either Linux > or Windows. My suspicion is that I will have to mount the hard drive in > the computer case, initialize it, then remove it and mount it in the > external enclosure. > > Second question: if it is possible to initialize a hard drive in an USB > enclosure, how to I go about doing so? If anyone has any pointers to > appropriate How-To's, I'd be very appreciative. assuming the usb storage controller is supported by linux, slap the drive in the box and plug the box into a usb port. assuming everything works like it should, can do a dmesg or cat /proc/scsi/scsi in order to see where it got installed. probably /dev/sda if you have no other usb-storage serial-ata or scsi disks. Then create a partition on /dev/sda using fdisk and do a mkfs.ext3 -c /dev/sda1 and it's ready to mount. > Thanks! > > Andrew Robinson > > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting joelja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2
