On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, J.L. Coenders wrote:
fdisk -l does not show the disk... I have bought a new WD 200 Gb disk and built it in a 3.5" Sweex external casing and connected it to my computer with USB 2.0. Is there any way to check if the USB is operational, or to find out what device to use?
I normally plug in the disk - and monitor /var/log/messages
For eg, I get the following after plugging in (on FC1) :
---------------- Jul 10 22:02:05 localhost kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.7-4, assigned address 2 Jul 10 22:02:05 localhost kernel: usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0xc0b/0x27e7) is not claimed by any active driver. Jul 10 22:02:08 localhost kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... Jul 10 22:02:08 localhost kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage Jul 10 22:02:08 localhost kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Jul 10 22:02:08 localhost kernel: Vendor: WDC Model: WD1600BB-00FTA0 Rev: 15.0 Jul 10 22:02:08 localhost kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Jul 10 22:02:08 localhost kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. Jul 10 22:02:09 localhost kernel: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Jul 10 22:02:09 localhost kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Jul 10 22:02:09 localhost kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 Jul 10 22:02:09 localhost kernel: Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Jul 10 22:02:09 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: 312581808 512-byte hdwr sectors (160042 MB) Jul 10 22:02:09 localhost kernel: sda: sda1 Jul 10 22:02:09 localhost kernel: inserting floppy driver for 2.4.22-1.2197.nptl Jul 10 22:02:09 localhost kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M Jul 10 22:02:09 localhost kernel: FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 Jul 10 22:02:10 localhost devlabel: devlabel service started/restarted -----------------
The following line tells me the hdd is properly detected - as sda, and there is 1 partition sda1:
Jul 10 22:02:09 localhost kernel: sda: sda1
Now I can format/use the disk.
Satish
