From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chuck gelm Subject: Re: Backup up Linux fileserver via Maxtor External Hard Drive Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:26:39 -0500 Message-ID: <41D3210F.1050307@gelm.net> References: <004501c4edc3$e036f440$1f0aa8c0@lanadmin> Reply-To: chuck@gelm.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <004501c4edc3$e036f440$1f0aa8c0@lanadmin> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: eatley@wowcorp.com Cc: 'linux' 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs