We recently purchased a Maxtor External Hard Drive 250gb OneTouchII. We were considering using this to backup data on our RedHat Linux 9 fileserver, hooking it directly to this fileserver. One unrelated issue is that the usb is probably 1.1 while specs are 2.0, though the drive does say it's 1.1 compatible. Second, what issues do we need to resolve in order for a. the Linux box to read the drive, and b. formatting the unformatted external drive to work with the Linux box?
Thanks, Eve
Hi, Eve:
I recently purchased a USB interface device that accepts a 2.5" hard drive. It is USB 2.0 & 1.1 compatible, it just runs slower at v1.1
according to the documentation. I inserted one of my linux laptop
driver and plugged it into my USB port of a Slackware v9.1,
kernel 2.4.22, workstation and 'tail /var/log/messages' reported:
Dec 29 05:18:21 server kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:10.3-6, assigned address 3
Dec 29 05:18:22 server kernel: scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Dec 29 05:18:35 server kernel: sdb: sdb1 sdb2
Dec 29 05:18:38 server usb.agent[1535]: missing kernel or user mode driver usb-storage
I am not sure what the last line meant but, knowing that my 1st partition is swap and the 2nd the working partition, I:
mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/hd
mounts the filesystem at /mnt/hd :-)
'lsmod' |grep -i usb shows that usb-storage and usbcore are installed.
As Ray mentioned, if your new drive is unpartitioned and/or unformatted; I assume that you can use 'fdisk' to partition and mkfs.???? to create a filesystem on it.
HTH, Chuck
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