[BBLISA] Help with External USB drive on RH/Centos 5

Scott Ehrlich scott at MIT.EDU
Fri Sep 7 16:34:05 EDT 2007


Perfect.

Thanks.

Scott

On Fri, 7 Sep 2007, Nathan Faust wrote:

> Scott,
>
> Take a look at this write up of getting the my book II to work on linux.
>
> Nathan.
>
> http://linu.gs/misc/remember/wd-mybook-1TB-on-linux.php
>
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On
> Behalf Of Scott Ehrlich
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 3:23 PM
> To: bblisa at bblisa.org
> Subject: [BBLISA] Help with External USB drive on RH/Centos 5
>
> Another issue to tackle - I have an external 1 TB drive (2 500GB on a
> RAID).
> When I plug it into the server, it sees, via /var/log/messages, that a
> USB
> device was plugged in, but that's it.   fdisk -l doesn't see it.  dmesg
> doesn't
> do much, either.   It is a Western Digital My Book II device.
>
> I want to format it and use it for external storage, but can't until I
> get to
> it.    What is the best way to get to the drive?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Scott
>
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