Getting my Accomdata external SATA drive to work

[Tyler Aviss]

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Paul King <sciguy-Ja3L+HSX0kI at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have been having problems configuring my Acomdata external HD (using
> firewire) on to Feisty Fawn (Ubuntu 8.4.x). The disk to be mounted is a
> fully-formatted NTFS drive (this is because my local machine is dual
> boot).
>
> After some dismembering and poking, I find that my HD is a 1TB Seagate
> Barracuda (STX-ST31000340AS), and found through dmesg|less that it was
> recognised, but never mounted. It was under /dev/sdb. So, I
> mounted /dev/sdb1 by hand under /media, and things have been OK for now.
> I have even mounted it as a share so my Windoze boxes can see it. That
> was tested out also (disappointed by the slowness, as it is a multimedia
> drive -- Ubuntu seems slower than Windows at delivering the bytes to my
> Windows VLC player -- but that's a different problem).
>
> My problem now, is that if, for some reason I have to boot Linux, there
> is a likelihood that the kernel may choose to assign something other
> than /dev/sdb to mount it on, as I know from past experience. Using the
> label ("Acorn") has been documented to work, but never has for me. The
> line in /etc/fstab which began "LABEL=acorn" had to be changed
> to /dev/sdb1, so that it could mount. When it does, an icon labelled
> "acorn" appears on my desktop.
>
> The other way to do it, is to use "UUID=<...>". Any ideas on how to get
> the UUID?
>
> Paul King
>
>
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Another option might also be to use 'udev' to give it a fixed device
ID, rather the SDx, such as
/dev/sdAcorn + /dev/sdAcorn1
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