if you have no scsi, it will be /dev/sda
you may need to modprobe usb-storage first, and of course the usb filesystem
will need to be mounted.
/home/greg# mount -v | grep usb
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
after that it should work just fine.
-G
On 22-Oct-02 Jonathan Gaudette wrote:
> How do you find out what usb device your hard drive is connected to? I
> don't see it anywhere. I am an external hard drive (comp. usa brand)
> that I've been trying to hook up, randomly selecting scsi devices and
> trying to mount them, but nothing works. I also have a palm that I want
> to start sync'ing up, but I have no idea how to begin identifying which
> usb ports are where in /dev :(
>
> -Jon
>
> On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 21:30, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
>> On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Steven Raymond wrote:
>>
>> > When you say "painful", do you mean there are more problems, or simply a
>> > lot slower?
>>
>> A *lot* slower. Large backups were writing at about 1MB/s.
>>
>> > Did you ever get it working under RH7.2?
>>
>> I got the drive working, but not the shutdown umount. Like I said, if
>> you're using a journaling filesystem, that shouldn't be a huge worry. But
>> three machines and two versions of Red Hat later, it still won't umount
>> automatically for me.
>>
>> > Forever ~ many hours, overnight, two weeks? I tried overnight and it was
>> > still 5xx/1024.
>>
>> About 3 hours or so on my 120 GB drive, and the I/O caused the rest of the
>> system to slow down while it was chugging away.
>>
>> --
>> "The only thing that helps me maintain my slender grip on reality is the
>> friendship I share with my collection of singing potatoes."
>>
>> - Holly, JMC Vessel *Red Dwarf*
>>
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