[PLUG] Finding and mounting a second SATA drive

[Richard C. Steffens]

On 04/06/2012 10:19 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:

>     Two options: 1) 'less /proc/partitions/' will show all drives, and B)
> 'tail -f /var/log/messages' will show you what's connected or disconnected
> as the change occurs.
On 04/06/2012 10:27 AM, Russell Johnson wrote:
> I've always had good luck with 'dmesg | grep [hs]d'. There's some noise to filter through, but that should display any drives attached to a sata, pata or scsi bus.

Thanks for all the ideas. I'll file them away for future reference. As I 
mentioned, the problem was a bad drive. While we don't have perfect 
backups for her machine, we do have backups. I'll try to get her to do 
hers more frequently.

I was using her machine for backing up my stuff. I now have a 160 Gb 
drive in my USB drive box where I have put the important stuff this 
morning. I'll continue to give her a place on my machine to put her 
backups, and make copies of that stuff on the USB drive when I do mine. 
I usually leave it powered off and disconnected, thus relying a very 
large air gap surge protector.

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Regards,

Dick Steffens