Ah... I solved the problem, thanks for the help. It was a bad jumpersetting on the harddisk. It now works and I am now formatting the disk. - Jeroen On Thursday 15 July 2004 10:30 pm, 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? > > - Jeroen > > On Thursday 15 July 2004 06:21 pm, Michael Yep wrote: > > To figure out the device it is on: > > > > su > > fdisk -l > > > > then there should be a disk (with no partition table) that shows up most > > likely /dev/sda > > > > once you determine the correct device > > > > fdisk /dev/sda > > > > for just 1 big partition > > > > n = new partition > > p = primary > > 1 = partition 1 > > t = set type > > l = list types, 83 = linux, 7 = fat32 > > w = write partition table > > > > then for fat32 > > > > mkfs.msdos -F32 /dev/sda1 > > > > or linux > > > > mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1 > > > > Note there is a lot of different options you could pick, and many > > different ways to partition / format > > > > > > At 11:09 AM 7/15/2004, you wrote: > > How can I format a disk which is not partitioned and not formatted? > > > > > > Michael Yep > > Development / Technical Operations > > RemoteLink, Inc. > > (630) 983-0072 x164
