USB Hard Drive mount [solved]

nirax · Last edited by nirax on Fri Dec 31, 2004 10:27 am; edited 1 time in total

Hi all,

i bought a Western Digital USB 2.0 External 200gb Hard Drive and want to use it under gentoo also not only under win2k.
I compiled USB support and SCSI in Kernel. The drive is also found correctly
fdisk -l shows the drive but upon trying to mount it i get an error message.
please see the messages, maybe someone figures out the problem:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 12:07 pm Post subject:

nirax,

I had something similar, it was because the codepage containg the symbol set the filesystem uses was not loaded/built. The defualt is codepage 437 but you may choose any available by using

nirax · Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 3:35 pm Post subject:

hi,
thanks for the reply !
i checked my current kernel config and found out to use the standard:

pgf · Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 8:11 pm Post subject:

Possibly a stupid question, but you didn't say for sure: does the disk have a filesystem on it? You can't mount it until it does. Have you formatted it under Windows or done the UN*X equivalent (mkfs)?

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 9:15 pm Post subject:

nirax,

That config entry tells vfat what to use by default. You also have to choose to make that codepage under Native Language Support, a little further down the config.
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nirax · Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 10:23 am Post subject:

hi Neddy,

that was the solution.
my NLS codepage was 850.
with
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbhd -o codepage=850
it worked flawless !

thanks pgf also for reply, hd was formatted.

thanks all and happy new year !!

greetings,
nirax
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RockChops · n00b Joined: 10 Jul 2004 Posts: 23

Hello all,

I have an external HDD as well and I've managed to mount it so far. Or at least half of it. It is a 120 GB drive partitioned into two 60 GB parts, both NTFS, since I'm a loser and started out with winXP.

I have two problems really. First, I cannot change the permision of the directory where I mounted it using chmod.

I mounted it with

pgf · Posted: Sat Jan 08, 2005 9:08 pm Post subject:

After the filesystem is mounted RO the chmod will not work, as you have found out. I have never tried executing files from an NTFS partition, but you will need t make sure that you use the "exec" option when you mount it. The man page says that is the default, but try it explicitly.

If your first partition is at /dev/sda1, then the second should be at /dev/sda2. If there are "hidden" partitions you are unaware of, then it may be sda3, sda4, etc.

You should be able to see the partitions by doing "fdisk -l /dev/sda"

RockChops · n00b Joined: 10 Jul 2004 Posts: 23

awesome, thanks pgf!

I got the permissions working right, by modeling it after my fstab line which mounts my windows partition (which is still a mystery as to why ONLY this set of options works

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