USB, Toshiba

[ted leslie]

It may not always know the name of the device, it may just give a device ID.
use  dmesg to check for other interesting info,
also vmware and other virts  (the guests) can steal the usb device as
well (i have been burned by this a few times).

tl


On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Zbigniew Koziol <softquake-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> How it is with USB. I am aware that my question may be somewhat silly.
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> There is this:
> /sbin/lsusb
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> It lists devices connected through USB.
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> Why sometime not all devices are listed? I noticed that twice: a sort of USB
> webcam was not listed, and now I have at work an external 2 TB drive
> (Toshiba) that is not listed.
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> I would rather think that all connected to USB ports devises should be
> listed. If they could be used from Linux - thats another question, possibly.
>
> BTW, instruction for that Toshiba external drive writes: manual is on the
> disk itself. Yhm... So I would have to access the drive from windows to read
> manual. Yhm... I noticed though by scanning the web that Toshiba does rather
> not offer Linux support.
>
> Anyway, any ideas if I am able to use that external USB drive?
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