[NTLUG:Discuss] USB drive

[Eric Waguespack]

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Fred <fredstevens at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I bought an external drive box at Tanners that is a
> USB-to-ide conversion. I used qtparted to partition
> an IDE drive as FAT32, then used
> mkdosfs -F 32 -I /dev/hdb1 to finish the job (I think).
> I connected the drive to the box, plugged it into a
> USB port and nothing. The system (opensuse 10.2)
> does not see it. Flash drives work ok. This 160GB
> drive works fine when hooked to the IDE bus and the
> system then sees it as basically an empty FAT32 drive.
>
> So what am I doing wrong? How do I make it work?
> Google hasn't helped.
>
> Fred
>
>

clear the kernel ring buffer
$ sudo dmesg -c
then plug in the usb drive and run dmesg again
$ dmesg
does anything appear in the ring buffer after you plug in the device?