Accessing external IDE drive via USB2 with IDE - USB adaptor cable.

[Nils Kassube]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> I need to access the data on an IDE hard drive. I have connected the
> drive to power and to the computer via an IDE - USB adaptor cable,
> however I do not see how I can mount this disk. My internal hard disk
> is sda, with the fileystem on sda2 and /home on sda4. There are no
> other hard disks connected to the machine. Here is what I get:

> hardy2 at hardy2-laptop:~$ tail /var/log/messages

> Sep 21 20:31:55 hardy2-laptop kernel: [18348.727118] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb]

Obviously the disk is at "/dev/sdb" but there doesn't seem to be a 
partition known to the kernel. What is the output of

sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb

in a terminal?


Nils