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.
dmesg returns this:
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.2-5, assigned address 2 usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=2 (error=-71) hub.c: new USB device 00:02.2-5, assigned address 3 usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=3 (error=-71)
Does this mean my storage device is not supported? Would someone help me interpret this?
Thanks!
Andrew Robinson
