May 27, 2003

RedHat Linux 9 And HUGE USB 2.0 Hard Drives (and tutorial) Part 2

Hey! Enki has moved his blog to Armyofevilrobots.com. Check it out after you are done here. This page is going nowhere though...

It came to my attention that some steps were missing from the tutorial I wrote up, so I though that I'd finish up here with the next few things to do...

First of all, after you have started with the new kernel, and can see the drive in usbtree, you have to make sure you can reach it as a standard scsi drive. If you have all IDE equipment, it should show up as /dev/sda (check by running /sbin/fdisk -l for a list of partitions and drives). If not, make sure all the appropriate modules are running, by using this command: modprobe scsi_mod ehci-hcd autofs usb-storage usbcore

If you still don't see the drive, try running: /sbin/hotplug usb

If despite all of this the drives don't show, you can actually try to force linux to see it by running fdisk /dev/sda (or whatever the next scsi device would be), and then exiting out.

If all of this fails, then you are on your own. Start here for more technical details.

Back to part 1

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