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

[Rich Shepard]

   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