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USB harddrive in Knoppix

post #1 of 6
1/15/04 at 11:12pm
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Hi guys,

How do I know if my fresh Knoppix hdinstall is seeing my USB LaCie Mobile 20gig drive. It's formatted as Fat32 so Linux will be able to read it. Do I have to mount or should it automatically pick up the USB device. It would be well handy until I get linux online so I can download files in windows and read them from Linux.

Cheers...

ION
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post #2 of 6
1/15/04 at 11:45pm
You will need to add it to your fstab with the no auto and just issue a mount /mountpoint I do it with my usb key drive. It should pick it up as a usb mass storage device but not sure about automounting it .
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post #3 of 6
1/16/04 at 11:24am
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Cheers man...

I feel like such a newb.. any ideas on if the network card is pick up.. is there any type of device manager with a list of drivers installed etc or am I living in MS land for too long...

Cheers in advance again..

ION
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post #4 of 6
1/16/04 at 5:56pm
You can go through the kernel messages and see if the card was detected at boot by using "dmesg|more". To see if the card is on your pci bus, try "lspci".
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post #5 of 6
1/16/04 at 8:09pm
If it's a pcmcia card issue a tail -f dmessage (or what ever loging facility you use) and insert the card and watch what happens. tail will monitor a file in real time sorta depends on how often the file is updated.
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post #6 of 6
1/16/04 at 9:51pm
Just thought I'd say this: when I plug in my external hard drive enclosure via USB, the kernel log shows a few messages about the USB device being detected and associated with a SCSI device (off the top of my head here... not sure about the details). As others already mentioned, do "dmesg" after you plug it in - the USB-related messages should be at the end of the pile of stuff that will rush by .

Mikhail
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