[Linux] Using USB external hard drive

[Robert Citek]

On 07/24/2007 04:23 AM, 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?

It may.

> If so, how do I format it?

That depends on what filesystem you want and the ease to do that depends
on the distro you use.

> No icon appears on desktop like a scandisk unit does.

Can you plug in the drive, run this script, and post the contents of
output.txt:

true ; ( sudo echo -n
set -x
cat /etc/issue.net
sudo fdisk -l
) >& output.txt

Regards,
- Robert