USB hard drive

[Jim Douglas]

>From: James Wilkinson <fedora at westexe.demon.co.uk>
>Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>Subject: Re: USB hard drive
>Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 21:31:58 +0100
>
>Jim Douglas has been having trouble with his USB drive.
>
> > .....rebooting show this in the log file, not sure which device to 
>mount?
> > Whey does it have 4 when there's only 1 drive?
> >
> > sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
> > sd 0:0:0:1: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
> > sd 0:0:0:2: Attached scsi removable disk sdc
> > sd 0:0:0:3: Attached scsi removable disk sdd
>
> > EXT3 FS on hda3, internal journal
> >  Vendor: IOI       Model: MediaBay 7 in 4   Rev: 1.00
> >  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
> >  Vendor: IOI       Model: MediaBay 7 in 4   Rev: 1.01
> >  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
> >  Vendor: IOI       Model: MediaBay 7 in 4   Rev: 1.02
> >  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
> >  Vendor: IOI       Model: MediaBay 7 in 4   Rev: 1.03
> >  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
>
>Erm -- this looks like it's a device to mount different sorts of media
>(CompactFlash, SD, etc.) Is it anything like this:
>http://www.mymediagear.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=59&products_id=83&osCsid=149acb156b1648c54fd0308416589877
>
>In which case, it probably has four slots for the different media types,
>and these show up as different devices in Linux. Which one you use would
>depend on what sort of media you were trying to read -- all I can
>suggest is trial and error.
>
> > mkdir usbhd in /media
> >
> > then,
> >
> > mount -t ext3 /dev/sda /media/usbhd
> >
> > is says,
> > mount:No medium found
>
>Try for sdb, sdc and sdd. Try
>fdisk -l /dev/sdx
>in case the medium comes with a partition table.
>
>Good luck!
>
>James.
>
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It's an IOMEGA 60GB USB external Hard Drive.

I tried sdb, sdc and sdd and it says,
mount: No medium found.

When I try
fdisk -l /dev/sdx (I aslo tried sda, sdb, sdc, sdd)

nothing happens, no messages or anything.

The USB hard drive is FAT32, could that be an issue?


Jim