[NTLUG:Discuss] Firewire and RH9

[Daniel Hauck]

Ah!  Something I have done before.

It's a great sign that you see messages that the device is connected.  The
next step is to mount that puppy.

Typically speaking, firewire and USB mass storage devices are set up to
/dev/sdX devices.  For example, my camera and USB memory card readers are
usually /dev/sda.  Of course you need to mount a partition from that drive
so it ends up as something like:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/USB0

I have also done firewire drives and the process is identical.  If you do
not and have not previously (during this current boot) used other external
firewire or USB drives, then you need to assume the firewire drive is
assigned to /dev/sda.  If not, then /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, etc.  If you have
multiple partitions on the device, you may wish to explore them prior to
mounting them using fdisk.

Typing:

fdisk /dev/sda 

or something similar will allow you to examine your device's partitions.

I hope this was useful.

I do not yet know how to make these devices auto-mounting the way CDROM and
other devices are.  I guess that's an operation to be explored.  I know I'd
like to learn to do that so I can have auto-mounting drives.  I feel
reasonably sure it can be done... the question is how easily.


on 10/13/03 14:24, David Wilson at drindles at yahoo.com wrote:

> I am trying to use an external firewire hard drive
> with RH9 and am having some difficulty.  I can see in
> dmesg where it sees the Maxtor drive but it never
> assigns it a device such as sda or sdb.
> 
> What am I missing?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> David
> 
> BTW Kernel 2.4.20-20.9
> 
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