Re: external HDD

Roby wrote:

ivan danicic wrote:

Hello All, I'd like to use this 160 Gb iomega usb HDD but I can't
mount it. I have read a lot of suggestions but nothing works. I
think this is device /dev/sda5 and it is an ext2 partition but
whatever I put into fstab I get an error message of type "wrong
fs..." or "no medium found". Any suggestions gratefully
received.
Ivan

Here's what dmesg says when I plug in my usb pen drive
and wait about 10 seconds for everybody to get acquainted:

$ dmesg |tail
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 1981440 512-byte hdwr sectors (1014 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: sda1
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
usb-storage: device scan complete

and my /etc/fstab includes this:
/dev/sda1 /hd-usb auto noauto,users 0 0

... which serves either my pen drive (vfat) or my external
HD (reiserfs).

Do you see something similar in dmesg?

Roby
Hello, No. My dmesg talks only about /dev/sda2 which is an
extended w95 partition which somehow contains the sda5 which
fails; alas I know nothing about these things.
Ivan

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