Initializing drive in USB enclosure
Andrew Robinson
awrobinson at cox.net
Tue Apr 20 21:54:38 UTC 2004
Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Andrew Robinson wrote:
>
>
>>I have recently acquired a Western Digital EIDE 80 GB hard drive.
>>Separately, I acquired an external USB enclosure. I would like to get
>>the hard drive working in the enclosure to provide myself with some
>>portable disk space.
>>
>>First question: is it possible to initialize a hard drive in an USB
>>external enclosure? I haven't figured out how to do so from either Linux
>>or Windows. My suspicion is that I will have to mount the hard drive in
>>the computer case, initialize it, then remove it and mount it in the
>>external enclosure.
>>
>>Second question: if it is possible to initialize a hard drive in an USB
>>enclosure, how to I go about doing so? If anyone has any pointers to
>>appropriate How-To's, I'd be very appreciative.
>
>
> assuming the usb storage controller is supported by linux, slap the drive
> in the box and plug the box into a usb port. assuming everything works
> like it should, can do a dmesg or cat /proc/scsi/scsi in order to see
> where it got installed. probably /dev/sda if you have no other usb-storage
> serial-ata or scsi disks. Then create a partition on /dev/sda
> using fdisk and do a mkfs.ext3 -c /dev/sda1 and it's ready to mount.
>
dmesg returns this:
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.2-5, assigned address 2
usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=2 (error=-71)
hub.c: new USB device 00:02.2-5, assigned address 3
usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=3 (error=-71)
Does this mean my storage device is not supported? Would someone help me
interpret this?
Thanks!
Andrew Robinson
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