[PLUG] Accessing individual external hard drives in the same enclosure
Larry Brigman
larry.brigman at gmail.com
Fri Sep 29 01:47:05 UTC 2017
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
>
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