Re: Help installing a Maxtor External Firewire HD

From: Ben Hall (bhall-www_at_linuxgruven.ca)
Date: 07/29/03

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Date: 29 Jul 2003 08:25:35 -0400

    As root, type dmesg | more. Near the end of the output you should see
    what the FW drive is recognized as. (Mine was /dev/sda, I'd bet yours
    is too.)

    Assuming it has one partition, which, if it was a Windows drive, is
    likely the case, then the partition in question will be /dev/sda1.

    So, the first time type: mkdir /mnt/sda1 (this makes the mount point)

    To actually mount the drive do mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1. If Linux for
    some reason doesn't recognize the filesystem, to mount -t<your FS>
    /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 where <your FS> is whatever the filesystem is.
    (vfat for FAT32, ntfs for... NTFS, ext2 etc...)

    To have the drive mount automatically on boot you'll have to edit your
    /etc/fstab file.

    Hope that helps,

    Ben

    On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 00:20, Sergio Espinoza wrote:
    > Greetings,
    >
    > I have had quite a hard time trying to install a 160GB
    > Maxtor External Firewire HD.
    >
    > The drive is apparently recognized (and added to RH)
    > at boot time, but, in the /mnt directory I only have
    > /cdrom and /floppy.
    >
    > I have search the net for quite some time for answers
    > about how to correctly configure my drive, no luck so
    > far. :S
    >
    > Can someone please help me out? Any ideas? What's
    > missing?
    >
    > BTW, I using Red Hat 9.
    >
    > Thanks in advance,
    >
    >
    > Sergio Espinoza Dien
    > serespdi@yahoo.com
    >
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