[PLUG] Accessing individual external hard drives in the same enclosure

[Ken Stephens]

Larry Brigman wrote:
> When you plug in the enclosure, messages from the kernel should show you
> what has been detected.  If it a USB storage devices, it should identify
> which device the kernel assigned.
>
> On Sep 28, 2017 6:25 PM, "Rich Shepard" <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>
>>     I have a HornetTek dual-bay external hard drive case (SATA II and USB 2
>> which are adequate for my needs). There is only a single USB port. My web
>> searches taught me that some multi-drive external enclosures are
>> configurable to have the two drives in a RAID or work individually. I think
>> this model has that capability but the one-page 'manual' has no information
>> on that. I did not see a switch on the inside of the case so I assume being
>> able to mount each drive on a separate mount point is done with software.
>>
>>     My searches for how to do this in linux found only information on
>> booting
>> a linux system from an external hard drive, using one disk or the other.
>>
>>     I suppose that I could get the UID for each drive (they're now in
>> separate
>> enclosures which is why I want to consolidate them) and assign each to a
>> different /mnt/ subdirectory (e.g., the existing /mnt/hd/ and a new
>> /mnt/hd1/, each with a different nickname) if that would be the most
>> parsimonious way to do this.
>>
>>     As always, I'm open to learning how best such things are done.
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Rich
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> PLUG mailing list
>> PLUG at lists.pdxlinux.org
>> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
>>
>
Rich,

Check dmesg to see if the drives show up as to individuals.  If so, then a software mirror could be 
created.  If not, then the drives may be mirrored inside the enclosure.

Ken