Mounting an external HDD

[Cef]

On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 12:49, zer0halo wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 13:47:26 -0800, Chuck Vose <vosechu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > My understanding of Hal is that it isn't an automounter at all, even
> > if Hal knows what kind of disk is it, the program automount still has
> > to figure out what to do with it. Hal is still very much a work in
> > progress but it'll get better very quickly due to _incredible_ demand
> > and great community support.
>
> I guess it's not automounting. I do know that the system is
> recognizing it though because as I mentioned before, dmesg gives me
> the following:
>
> usb 4-1: new high speed USB device using address 3
> Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
> scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
>
> And lshal (or Device Manager in the menu) also shows it there.
>
> Do you think it's a bug, or am I missing something?

Which kernel are you using? If it's after 2.6.8, note that all USB block 
devices now use /dev/ub* device nodes (as of 2.6.9).

> (You  may be wondering, just stick the damn HDD in your desktop and
> access it from there! Unfortunately I'm on a laptop :-)

Know that feeling.

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