USB Hard drive access


Forum: HD Install
Topic: USB Hard drive access
started by: oxatunt
Posted by oxatunt on Oct. 21 2004,15:29
I have a hard drive installation through Microsoft's virtual Machine and it is working fine. My question is how can I use a usb hard drive. during the bootup process I see that the floppy and CDRom have been mounted and I have added /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive ext2 default 0 0 to the fstab. It just doesn't see it... I've tried it in fedora core 2 and I can access it just fine. I'm not sure if thsi is a DSL probem or a MSVM problem, any thoughts...?

thanks.
Posted by AwPhuch on Oct. 21 2004,15:58
Quote (oxatunt @ Oct. 21 2004,11:29)
I have a hard drive installation through Microsoft's virtual Machine and it is working fine. My question is how can I use a usb hard drive. during the bootup process I see that the floppy and CDRom have been mounted and I have added /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive ext2 default 0 0 to the fstab. It just doesn't see it... I've tried it in fedora core 2 and I can access it just fine. I'm not sure if thsi is a DSL probem or a MSVM problem, any thoughts...?

thanks.

You might try
< http://www.linux-usb.org/ >
FAQS here
< http://www.linux-usb.org/FAQ.html >

That would be a very good place to start..you have to have the USB modules loaded
Quote
alias usb uhci

none                    /proc/bus/usb           usbdevfs noauto         0 0

Brian
AwPhuch
Posted by oxatunt on Oct. 21 2004,16:08
I'll try that...
thanks for the quick response!
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