Finally I have gotten working my USB 2.0 / Firewire 2.5" Hard
Disk interface on my RedHat 9.0 Linux box. My hardware: Argosy HD-530 USB 2.0 /Firewire.
Note that this method applies to most of the USB / Firewire storage hardware.
The Argosy USB 2.0 / Firewire 2.5" Hard Disk Interface
is wholly usable in Linux.
I am running RedHat 9.0, and issuing 'uname -r' on my
linux box, it returns a kernel version 2.4.20-8... yeah!
I know... that's nothing out of this world!
To make things work nicely, there are a two files to
look at, which are:
The first one:
/etc/fstab
That probably already shows you the device you want
to mount, but if not, just read ahead. We'll return
to this in a while, to make /etc/fstab look how it should.
The other one:
/etc/sysconfig/hwconf
Take special attention to sections describing your USB hardware.
To make all simpler here's my file section which applies
to the case:
...
-
class: HD
bus: SCSI
detached: 0
device: sda
driver: ignore
desc: "Ibm-djsa -220"
host: 0
id: 0
channel: 0
lun: 0
generic: sg0
-
...
And guess what... the description field (desc shows the
same label Windows XP gives to your device (with the 2.5
HDD inside, of course).
So, try a text search inside your /etc/sysconfig/hwconf,
using part of the label. Don't forget using lower/upper
case (ask your text editor to perform a non case sensitive
search).
When you have it, just use the label matching the "device"
field, as in my case "sda".
What we only need to know is which particular partition on
your enclosed disk you want to mount to. If you have only
one, you should specify sda1 (or sda2, sda3, sdb1, sdc3, etc). Think as it were: sd<scsi_device_letter><partition_number> all together (in fact, is right this way).
Now we are ready for the magic:
'mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/other'
OOOpps!!
"vfat" & "other"???
vfat: is the filesystem type of your partition, or better
said, you should put your filesystem type instead of vfat,
but as my 2.5" HDD was formatted in FAT32 filesystem
I've used vfat, which that's how linux names FATxx
filesystems. Note that standard linux distributions do
NOT manage NTFS filesystems, unless you made some tweaks.
other: that should be the famous mount point (a folder
created to use it as a known place to map your files).
So choose a nice name to map your files and create a
folder under /mnt, which typically is:
.
..
floppy
cdrom
So issue a 'mkdir mypreferredfoldername'
and what you'll have is:
.
..
floppy
cdrom
mypreferredfoldername
Finally, the command will be:
'mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/mypreferredfoldername'
Then take a look to what's inside '/mnt/myblahblah...'
There you go! (Hopefully).
Now, add this line to your forgotten /etc/fstab file:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/myblah vfat noauto,owner,users 0 0
Try to ident the text strings, just to make it look
neat and clean. It might help to figure out the details.
The next time, what you only need to do is to attach your device and mount it using an abreviated form of mount:
mount /mnt/myblah
Hope this helped something!
Felipe Zottola Diz.
Spain.
Note: Windows XP, is a software registered by its respective software brand/house and it's not mi interest to express any comment in favor or against to it's characteristics, so use my instructions at your own responsibility and enjoy them as much as you can!
Note2: Enjoy Linux too!
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