Am Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:20:51 -0500 schrieb Barry Skidmore: > I am trying to use an external USB 1.1 drive on a Debian (woody) system > with kernel 2.4.24. > > I have been able to partition the USB drive as ext2 using the > SystemRescue CD (v0.2.9) with 'QtParted'. It shows up as 'dev/sda', with the > partition as 'dev/sda1'. However, when I try to use 'Partimage' on the > rescue CD to back up the partitions which reside on my hard drive, I > receive an error that there may not be enough room on the target disk > (not true) or I might not have permissions to write to the disk (the > rescue CD runs as root). > > So, I am now trying to mount the USB drive from Debian to check into > this problem further, but have been unable to. The drive does not show > up when I boot the system (or do an 'fdisk -l'), even though I do see > that usb is enabled: > > usb.c: registered new driver hub > host/uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver V1.1 > > When I try to do what's below, I get the following error: > # mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sda1 > # mkfs.ext2: No such device or address while trying to determine file > system size > > When I try to do what's below, I get the following error: > # mount -t ext2 /dev/sda1 /mnt > # mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
When I tried using an external usb-hard disk with the System Rescue CD, I had to load the scsi module manually (modprobe sd_mod). You should be able to see if the drive has been attached to a device by doing dmesg and finding something like Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Regards, Robert. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
