Re: USB Hard Drive on Debian (woody) - Kernel 2.4.24

From: Robert Voppmann (robert.voppmann_at_fernuni-hagen.de)
Date: 01/31/04

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    Am Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:20:51 -0500 schrieb Barry Skidmore:

    > 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

    When I tried using an external usb-hard disk with the System Rescue CD, I
    had to load the scsi module manually (modprobe sd_mod). You should be
    able to see if the drive has been attached to a device by doing

      dmesg

    and finding something like

      Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0

    Regards,
    Robert. 

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