news2003@wanadoo.es wrote:
> I try to mount it on FC4.
>
> My idea is to keep the hard drive always plug to that machine.
>
> The hard drive is a combo Seagate 300GB connected to the USB port.
>
> I didn't manage to make it work using the firewire port. I tried the
> drive in another machine using the Firewire port and works.
>
> There is another question that comes to my mind.
>
> this is the result of df -h
>
> $ df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
> 11G 8.9G 1.3G 88% /
> /dev/hda1 99M 9.8M 84M 11% /boot
> /dev/shm 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda 276G 217M 261G 1% /mnt/external
>
> When I come to fdisk I get quite confuse. Originally it was set the
> mount as /dev/sda1. I don't know if this changed will make a big change
> for futures update of the machine. Or in case I plug a second USB
> drive.
>
> Also the information about "mount and unmount it when I plug it in"
> will be helpful as I won't need to reboot the system.
>
> Once again, Thanks in advance.
> John

Set "Enable Legacy USB support" in the BIOS - and ensure that 'USB' or
'Removable' device/drive appears (or atleast is not omitted) from your
Boot Order Device list in the BIOS...

System specs (CPU/Mobo/etc) may help, if above doesn't do it for ya