rlengland@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2007/08/10 Fri AM 10:52:30 CDT
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: How can you get a Seagate USB 160 GB drive to mount?
rlengland@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I created the fstab entry only to test whether the device worked.
I'll remove it.
I don't think I've placed a label on an external device after the
fact. What is the procedure? And does it have any harmful effects on
data on the device?
This drive has someone's complete audio collection on it and they
would prefer to not loose it. :-)
How to do it depends on the file system. For 2e/e3 file systems,
e2label will add a label without affecting the file system. For
(V)FAT file systems, I have not found a good way to add a label
under Linux. You can add one under windows without any problems.
Mikkel
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It's VFAT. I'll have to wait till I get back to the machine tonight and connect it to my one lone Windoze box.
Thank you Mikkel. I'll report on the results.
~~R
The drive had a label of "SEAGATE". I changed it, just to be certain, to
"USB_SEAGATE" and remove the /etc/fstab entry for /dev/sdc1. Setting
/etc/mtools.conf and using mlabel as Tim and Matthew suggested, worked
fine.
Upon unplugging and replugging, however,I had the same results. No
desktop icon, no mount.
/var/log/messages shows
Aug 10 21:42:08 didius kernel: scsi 15:0:0:0: Direct-Access ST316002
3A 8.01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
Aug 10 21:42:08 didius kernel: sd 15:0:0:0: [sdc] 312581808 512-byte
hardware sectors (160042 MB)
Aug 10 21:42:08 didius kernel: sd 15:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
Aug 10 21:42:08 didius kernel: sd 15:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache:
write through
Aug 10 21:42:08 didius kernel: sd 15:0:0:0: [sdc] 312581808 512-byte
hardware sectors (160042 MB)
Aug 10 21:42:08 didius kernel: sd 15:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
Aug 10 21:42:08 didius kernel: sd 15:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache:
write through
Aug 10 21:42:08 didius kernel: sdc: sdc1
Aug 10 21:42:08 didius kernel: sd 15:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
Aug 10 21:42:08 didius kernel: sd 15:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
so the USB system is seeing it and assign /dev/sdc1 to it. Also, it is
visible to lsusb;
$ /sbin/lsusb
Bus 005 Device 018: ID 0bc2:0502 Seagate RSS LLC
<--------------
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0409:0059 NEC Corp. HighSpeed Hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 03f0:3611 Hewlett-Packard
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Any further clues, anyone?
~~R
