[Linux] Using USB external hard drive

[Chris 'Chipper' Chiapusio]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 07:23:20AM -0400, kerry blalock wrote:
>I purchased a seagate USB HD this week end and am having trouble using 
>it. When booting the system, a message appears that it is loading the 
>SCSI driver. Looking under /media, I can see the drive, but not sure how 
>to mount it so that I can use.
>
>Does it need to be formatted? If so, how do I format it?
>
>No icon appears on desktop like a scandisk unit does.
>

Check the following commands for clues:

Boot up, then plug the unit in.

dmesg | tail 20
mount


the first will give you console messages and give you a clue about the device
name.  Then check and see if the device is mounted.  If dmesg does not show
that is recognized existing partitions (for example, it sees sda, then lists
sda1, sda2, sda3) you may need to partition and format it with fdisk and the
mkfs of your choice.

Chip


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