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

Ken Stephens kens at cad2cam.com
Fri Sep 29 18:34:30 UTC 2017


Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2017, david wrote:
>
>> The only simple way is to test it, and check the dmesg output or tail
>> the /var/log/messages file.
> David,
>
>     Perhaps this weekend.
>
>> If the operating system only sees one device, then the case is doing
>> something internal and you likely won't be able to change. You would
>> likely be able to guess at it by getting size information on the
>> filesystem using parted or fdisk on the presented device.
>     Or df -h.
>
>     In other words, there is no generic answer so testing of individual cases
> is required. That works for me.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
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Rich,

Just another shot in the dark: What does lsusb -t give you?  Do both drives show up with 
"Driver=usb-storage"?

Ken





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