You don't mention the brand of the drive, but at http://www.linux-usb.org/ there's a list of devices with support under linux. I believe there are also instructions for making it work if it is supported. My guess would be that similar to most other drivers (eg. scsi), the driver puts entries in /var/log/messages or /var/log/boot.msg as it loads, and tells you which /dev-device it has used. I've never used a USB device under linux, but something under /dev/usb/ seems likely HTH regards Anders On Thursday 09 August 2001 19:41, Robert Barish wrote:
Ok I have find on my own the answer to number 2) in the help files It says to format to use the following mkfs -t ext2 -c /dev/hdb1 (where /dev/hdb1 is the drive your want to format) nowI just need to know the drive designation SuSe 7.2 gives to usb storage drives. Any inputs?
Thanks Sincerely bob
On Thursday 09 August 2001 10:12, Robert Barish wrote:
Hello Everyone Being a linux convert from windoz there are still somethings I am having a hard time with. I looked thru the archives to see if maybe be I can answer my own questions and I have been able to answer some and not others. The one I am working in right now is, I have a usb ide removeable hard drive I would like to use again. I believe it is supported. When in look usbmgr is see it there. So my qustions are as follows: 1)I am assuming I have to mount the drive first to use it. So how do I mount th drive. I know how to mount cdrom and floppy on the command line because I know the devices.
2)Once I have mounted the drive I will need to format the whole drive so I can put files on it under linux. How do I do this manually. Since I installed linux it has always been do automatically upon installation.
Sorry for the real basic questions. I consider myself and very advance user on wwindoze and since my conversion (happly so) to linux I am having a hard time with the basics. I hope I have made my questions clear!
Thanks again for all you patience and help bob