Using a USB external enclosure with a PATA hard drive ?

[Richard Shaw]

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> FC 12-x86_64/kde
>
> I have a Acomdata external hard drive enclosure with a PATA hard drive
> set to Master.
> I want to just be able to read and write to it as a storage drive, lsusb
> sees the enclosure Acomdata but not the drive, what do I have to do to
> read/write to the hard drive ??

Others may have better advice, but you can try unplugging the drive
then as root do "tail -f /var/log/messages" and plug the drive back
in. It may give you some hints as to what's going on.

Richard