USB External Drive problems

[cMoAyRoItOe]

Hey guys im trien to get my external USB HDD to work, but it wont show up, when i plug it in it wont register at all, any ideas?

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[krohnjw]

It may just not be automounting. Have you tried mounting the drive manually?

[eagle1]

Yeah to what krohnjw said.
We had to do this even with USB flash drives on our RH7.3 workstations. We had to mount manually but then we added a line on the fstab so that the OS could ID and automount Flash drives automatically.
I guess it should be almost the same way with an HD.

[cMoAyRoItOe]

well how do i manually mount it?

[HARDR1]

Try this:

http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc....cGFnZT0x&p_li=

[cMoAyRoItOe]

thats windows tho, not linux

lol

[krohnjw]

You will need to use mount, if it is formatted Fat32 you can use
mount -t vfat /dev/sdaX /mount/point

Where X is the device number, more than likely 1, and /mount/point is the location to mount it.

[cMoAyRoItOe]

but its NTFS (i think) and hw do i know thats the device is 1 since its a USB device?

[krohnjw]

then use -t ntfs insead of -t vfat. And make sure that you have ntfs read support in your kernel (should in newer distros).