Accessing a Mass storage device

[Reuben D. Budiardja]

On Tuesday 01 June 2004 12:33 am, Roger Pregent wrote:
> It's a usb device much like an ipod actually it's basically an ipod for
> functionality sake, but it's made by RCA

Try this and see if it works (as root):

1. Make a moint point for it in /mnt:
$> mkdir /mnt/usb_device

2. Mount it (assuming your harddrive is all IDE, *not* SCSI)
$> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb_device

if you have 1 SCSI harddrive, then you need to mount /dev/sdb1, or /dev/sdc1 
ir you have 2 SCSI drive, etc..

3. See if you can get the file there 
$> cd /mnt/usb_device
$> ls

The likely thing to happen if linux doesn't recognize it is step 2 to fail. If 
that happens, please tell us the error message when you do step 2


HTH

PS: Please also don't top post. Reply below the previous reply, and remove 
unnecessarily lines. Top post is hard to read.

RDB
<snip>
> How can I achieve this? I have no problems in windows xp, but in the linux
> gui I cannot seem to figure out how to access the drive. I have been able
> to view it on the hardware viewer but that is all.
>
> I am a very novice linux user and if anyone can help me it would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> also I have tried to mount via system tools but I cannot even see the disk
> on the list of mountable media.

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Reuben D. Budiardja
Department of Physics and Astronomy
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
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