USB Hard Drive on Debian (woody) - Kernel 2.4.24

From: Barry Skidmore (skidmore_at_digital-village.net)
Date: 01/31/04

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    I am trying to use an external USB 1.1 drive on a Debian (woody) system
    with kernel 2.4.24.

    I have been able to partition the USB drive as ext2 using the
    SystemRescue CD (v0.2.9) with 'QtParted'. It shows up as 'dev/sda', with the
    partition as 'dev/sda1'. However, when I try to use 'Partimage' on the
    rescue CD to back up the partitions which reside on my hard drive, I
    receive an error that there may not be enough room on the target disk
    (not true) or I might not have permissions to write to the disk (the
    rescue CD runs as root).

    So, I am now trying to mount the USB drive from Debian to check into
    this problem further, but have been unable to. The drive does not show
    up when I boot the system (or do an 'fdisk -l'), even though I do see
    that usb is enabled:

    usb.c: registered new driver hub
    host/uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver V1.1

    When I try to do what's below, I get the following error:
    # mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sda1
    # mkfs.ext2: No such device or address while trying to determine file
    system size

    When I try to do what's below, I get the following error:
    # mount -t ext2 /dev/sda1 /mnt
    # mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device

    (same error with 'mount -t ext2 /dev/sda /mnt')

    Any advice would be appreciated.

    Barry 

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