Hey all,

I just plugged in a USB hard drive to my gentoo 2.6.5 box and saw the
following message in my /var/log/messages file.

usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using address 2

Now I was going to try to use fdisk on it but I don't know the /dev/xxx
to use. The only /dev/sd's I have is

/dev/sd (just a directory)

and

/dev/sda (which is my zip disk).

So how do I find out how to access it? Any help much appreciated.

Will

William Zumwalt wrote:

> So how do I find out how to access it? Any help much appreciated.


Try this:
http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/book1.html
and especially:
http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x498.html

In my case USB-disk is presented as /dev/sda1.
Maybe You don't have modprobe usb-storage or compiled kernel with SCSI
support.

fun