Re: Backup up Linux fileserver via Maxtor External Hard Drive

[chuck gelm <chuck@gelm.net>]

Eve Atley wrote:
> We recently purchased a Maxtor External Hard Drive 250gb OneTouchII. We were
> considering using this to backup data on our RedHat Linux 9 fileserver,
> hooking it directly to this fileserver. One unrelated issue is that the usb
> is probably 1.1 while specs are 2.0, though the drive does say it's 1.1
> compatible. Second, what issues do we need to resolve in order for a. the
> Linux box to read the drive, and b. formatting the unformatted external
> drive to work with the Linux box?
> 
> Thanks,
> Eve

Hi, Eve:

  I recently purchased a USB interface device that accepts a 2.5" hard 
drive.  It is USB 2.0  & 1.1 compatible, it just runs slower at v1.1
according to the documentation.  I inserted one of my linux laptop
driver and plugged it into my USB port of a Slackware v9.1,
kernel 2.4.22, workstation and 'tail /var/log/messages' reported:

Dec 29 05:18:21 server kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:10.3-6, assigned 
address 3
Dec 29 05:18:22 server kernel: scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass 
Storage devices
Dec 29 05:18:35 server kernel:  sdb: sdb1 sdb2
Dec 29 05:18:38 server usb.agent[1535]: missing kernel or user mode 
driver usb-storage

  I am not sure what the last line meant but, knowing that my
1st partition is swap and the 2nd the working partition, I:

mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/hd

  mounts the filesystem at /mnt/hd   :-)

  'lsmod' |grep -i usb shows that
usb-storage and usbcore
  are installed.

  As Ray mentioned, if your new drive is unpartitioned and/or unformatted;
I assume that you can use 'fdisk' to partition and mkfs.????
to create a filesystem on it.

HTH, Chuck

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