USB hard drive not working

Guest · 2004-01-11 09:01:52

I finally decided to really give Arch Linux a chance and so far my impression of it has been very nice. I am now having problems with my USB hard drive. It has worked on all previous distributions I have used (Slackware, Debian, Gentoo, SuSe). They all detected it as /dev/sda1 as an SCSI device. I used the IDE kernel. Is this why? If so what can I do to make it work? Thanks!

kog · 2004-01-19 14:39:41

I got Casio Camera, It works as USB-storage and it can be found
as /dev/sda1
Do you have USB-storage modukl in kernel ??
Please try 'modprobe usb-storage', then 'lsmod' to check it is in memmory.
Then try to mount it.

dariball · 2004-01-19 14:43:42

i don't know exactlly but as a usb device is handled as a scsi device u also have to load sd_mod i guess?!

correct me if i'm wrong...

kog · 2004-01-19 15:07:45

dariball wrote:

i don't know exactlly but as a usb device is handled as a scsi device u also have to load sd_mod i guess?!
correct me if i'm wrong...

I'm not sure about it.
I got CD-RW on IDE and I loading ide-scsi module when system starts. I read somewhere to have ide recorder or usb storage you need to have scsi emulation in the kernel or module. For my box it looks like rest of modules (responsible for USB and my CDRW) are loaded automaticaly. I can't give you results of 'lsmod' now becouse I'm at work.

dp · 2004-01-19 15:30:11

add to /etc/rc.conf to MODULES this 3 modules to have a external hdd working on usb:

usb-storage sr_mod sd_mod

enjoy

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USB hard drive not working

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