[PLUG] Identifying New External Hard Drive

[Kenneth B. Hill]

Can you access other hardware from the USB port that the external  
hard drive is connecting through? Try popping in a USB thumb drive  
and see if that is detected. Some external hard drives have drivers  
that need to be installed; they will come with a CD/DVD installation  
disk which is most likely for Windows and/or Mac OS's.

-Ken

On Jul 21, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:

>   I have a new 40G 2.5" hard drive that I've put in an external  
> enclosure
> and want to prepare for use. It's connected via a USB cable, but
> /var/log/messages does not seem to recognize that new hardware is  
> present.
>
>   Before I run mkfs.ext3 on the drive, I need to identify it and  
> mount it.
> How do I identify a clean drive, and how do I specify a filesystem  
> type when
> I mount it?
>
> Rich
>
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