Need help with 1 tb mass storage device with linux

[Jamon Camisso]

Dave Germiquet wrote:
> Hi, Fellow Tlugers
> 
> I need a large external hard disk for back up and its proofing a
> little tricky that it need to be. The hard disk will be attached to a
> system running Red Hat 5.2. I have already bought two and not having
> any lack.
> 
> I currently have a LANTEC  NexStar.CX  - that is all the labelling it
> has, and a 1TB hard disk inside. When I plug it in to the USB port and
> power on the drive, the hard disk come up - can tell that from the
> sound and LED lighting up, but there is no activity on the host. What
> I mean by this is, I can not see a new entry under dev directory, the
> dmesg is silent. In all way, its as if nothing was attached.
> 
> I have counter checked by plugging in a flash disk and it get mounted
> immediately, so the problem is not on the host side. It must be
> something to do with the external drive. Now, is there anything I can
> do to force the operating system to be aware of it?
> 
> If there is nothing I can do about the above, does any once have
> experience with a 1 TB external drive that works reliably under Linux?
> I am fine with both USB2 or IEEE 1394b. Ideally, the hard disk should
> be doing 7200 rpm, but would still pick up a 5400 rpm if it work well
> with Linux. Any assistance would be highly appreaciated

Any luck with your enclosure? Let us know as I'm sure others would be 
interested in hearing about your findings.

Jamon
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