[NTLUG:Discuss] USB drive

[Randall Weyers]

I should have given more info here is a High level overview not exact info 
but I am sure one of our better guys has abetter memory than I to fill in 
the blanks





1.       Plug disk into usb port

2.       Look at dmesg to find out what it mounted as and unmount it

3.       Type sudo  fdisk  -l

4.       Remove all partitions (fdisk -?) for the right command

5.       Make new partition agan fdisk-? For command

6.       Write partition table to drive fdisk -w

7.       Plug drive in and again look at dmesg to see how it mounted mine 
came in as sdb1

8.       Then mkfs  the disk to the type you wish

9.       Done

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred" <fredstevens at yahoo.com>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 8:03 PM
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] USB drive


>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
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