[SOLVED] Re: USB external harddisk

[J.L. Coenders]

Ah... I solved the problem, thanks for the help. It was a bad jumpersetting on 
the harddisk. It now works and I am now formatting the disk.
- Jeroen

On Thursday 15 July 2004 10:30 pm, J.L. Coenders wrote:
> 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
> > Development / Technical Operations
> > RemoteLink, Inc.
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