USB, Toshiba

Zbigniew Koziol softquake-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Tue Jan 18 17:34:49 UTC 2011


Thanks, Jason. I will be able to check your suggestions tomorrow.

On 18/01/11 08:36 PM, Jason Shaw wrote:
> I would think that it should "just work" by mounting it.  Have you run 
> dmesg when you plug the drive in/power it on to see if Linux notices 
> something plugged in?  Take a look at /dev/ to see if there is 
> /dev/sd[bcdef]1, which should be one letter beyond your optical drive 
> (if you have one).  So, if your hard disk is sda, and optical drive is 
> sdb, then your external drive will most likely be sdc.
>
> dmesg is your best starting point though as it will show you the 
> device name so that you can mount it manually.
>
> -jason
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> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Zbigniew Koziol <softquake-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org 
> <mailto:softquake-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>> wrote:
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>     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.
>
>     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?
>
>     zb/.
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