USB external harddisk

[J.L. Coenders]

fdisk -l does not show the disk...
I have bought a new WD 200 Gb disk and built it in a 3.5" Sweex external 
casing and connected it to my computer with USB 2.0.
Is there any way to check if the USB is operational, or to find out what 
device to use?

- Jeroen

On Thursday 15 July 2004 06:21 pm, Michael Yep wrote:
> To figure out the device it is on:
>
> su
> fdisk -l
>
> then there should be a disk (with no partition table) that shows up most
> likely   /dev/sda
>
> once you determine the correct device
>
> fdisk /dev/sda
>
> for just 1 big partition
>
> n = new partition
> p = primary
> 1 = partition 1
> t = set type
> l = list types, 83 = linux, 7 = fat32
> w = write partition table
>
> then for fat32
>
> mkfs.msdos -F32 /dev/sda1
>
> or linux
>
> mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1
>
> Note there is a lot of different options you could pick, and many different
> ways to partition / format
>
>
> At 11:09 AM 7/15/2004, you wrote:
>   How can I format a disk which is not partitioned and not formatted?
>
>
> Michael Yep
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