usb 2.0 external HD

[acidblue]

On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 16:52, netmask wrote:
> > OMG that worked, I can now mount my usb HD.
I did just what you said below.
Thanks netmask, your the man!
One more little thing, I want to mount this at boot time,
so would I use the same syntax to update my fstab file?
/dev/sda1     /mnt/usb-drive
or do I have to declare the file format like for mounting
NTFS?
> 
> that means it loaded..  you can then do 'lsmod'  to see what modules are 
> loaded.
> 
> I would also do a 'dmesg' after you run that, and see what information was 
> tossed in there after running it.
> 
> I think usb drives typically show up as scsi?
> 
> With my usb key chain (not sure if its the same), it shows up as sda..
> 
> so i
> 
> modprobe usb-storage
> mkdir /mnt/usb
> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
> 
> -- 
> netmask