mounting USB hard drive

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: mounting USB hard drive
started by: sfabius

Posted by sfabius on June 19 2009,12:15

I'm trying to attach a Western Digital USB external drive to an old Pentium I machine (DSL is great for this!). It has a USB connection, but when I try to mount there is nothing there. The mount tool does not recognize it, and when I try using /dev/sda1 as the device I get "not a valid block device."

dmesg shows that it is recognized, although there is a message:

Code Sample

<6>scsi: device set offline - not ready or command retry failed after bus reset: host 1 channel 0 id 0 lun 0

I'll google that error, but if anyone has any ideas, I'd appreciate it.

Posted by gizmomelb on Aug. 13 2009,04:31

hi,

did you have any luck with this? I'm attempting to do a similar thing (connect a USB HDD so I can then install DSL to it).