Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4237 mails)

["Jesse L. Purdom" <purdomj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hello.

I am attempting to use an external CompUSA USB IDE Hard Disk Enclosure.  My 
system is a Dell Latitude CPi Laptop, with SuSE v8.0 Professional installed.  

SuSE recognizes the device when it is plugged in.  USBView shows this:

USB2.0 Storage Device
Manufacturer: Cypress Semiconductor
Serial Number: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Speed: 12Mb/s (full)
USB Version: 2.00
Device Class: 00(>ifc)
Device Subclass: 00
Device Protocol: 00
Maximum Default Endpoint Size: 64
Number of Configurations: 1
Vendor Id: 04b4
Product Id: 6830
Revision Number: 0.01

While the device shows USB Version 2.00, it is backwards compatible to v1.1 
which is what is supported by both my laptop and SuSE v8.0.  hwinfo --usb 
shows this:

02: USB 101.0: 10a00 Hub
  [Created at usb.100]
  Unique ID: B3Fu.kevfIssjghD
  Hardware Class: hub
  Model: "USB UHCI Root Hub"
  Device: "USB UHCI Root Hub"
  Serial ID: "ece0"
  USB GUID: 00000000000000000000ece0
  USB Device status: driver active ("hub")
  Speed: 1.5 Mbps

03: SCSI 104.0: 10600 Disk
  [Created at usb.100]
  Unique ID: B3Fu.rGuCGBjyIw2
  Hardware Class: disk
  Model: "WDC AC23 40"
  Vendor: "WDC AC23"
  Device: "40"
  Revision: "0 0"
  Serial ID: "DEF10817C256"
  USB GUID: 04b468300000def10817c256
  Driver: "usb-storage"
  Device File: /dev/sda
  Speed: 1.5 Mbps
  Drive status: no medium
  Attached to: #2 (Hub)

The Model and Vendor entries show the hard drive, a Western Digital IDE drive.

Based on information gleened from www.linux-usb.org's USB guide I added an 
entry to /etc/fstab for the device:

/dev/sda	/mnt/usbhd	ext2	defaults 1 2

I created the mount point in /mnt and attempted to mount the device:

mount /mnt/usbhd

What I get back is this:

mount: /dev/sda is not a valid block device

It is very likely that the /etc/fstab entry is wrong, I was guessing as to 
what to put for the filesystem.  The HDD I am using has an NTFS partition on 
it, but one of the first things I wanted to do once I got the system to 
recognize the drive was format it.

If anyone has any suggestions on what may allow me to mount this device, I 
would greatly appreciate your help.

Have a good day.

Jesse
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