External cases for internal IDE drives; LiveCDs

[James Knott]

moliver-fC0AHe2n+mcIvw5+aKnW+Pd9D2ou9A/h at public.gmane.org wrote:
> Quoting James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>:
> 
>> moliver-fC0AHe2n+mcIvw5+aKnW+Pd9D2ou9A/h at public.gmane.org wrote:
>>> Does anyone have any experience with external cases
>>> (USB or parallel port) for internal IDE drives?  I
>>> need one to work with quite an old drive (4GB).  It
>>> came with a Dell machine; I know Dell sometimes has
>>> some incompatibilities.  Will that make a difference?
>>
>> I recently bought an Adaptec case, from Factory Direct, for $20.  It
>> works well.
> 
> How do you figure out which block device it is, when you want to mount
> it?

That depends on your distro.  USB drives will generally appear as
/dev/sda etc.  In SUSE 10.1 the device gets mounted on /media/<drive
label>.  For example, my external hard drive, in that Adaptec case has
the very original label of "usbdrive" and so gets mounted
/media/usbdrive.  A pen drive that I keep attached to my key chain has
the label of JAMES KNOTT and thus get mounted on /media/JAMES KNOTT.



BTW, that Adaptec case is advertised in the current Factory Direct
flyer, which is in today's Toronto Star and should also be in all the
stores.  The listed price is $20.
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