How to connect a USB Hard Disk to SME 6.0.1-01

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Summary: How to connect a USB Hard Disk to SME 6.0.1-01

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From a Forum Thread | http://forums.contribs.org/viewtopic.php?t=23552

1. Plug it in !!
2. "cdrecord --scanbus"
Gives the output:


Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 Jörg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.5'
scsibus1:
1,0,0 100) 'IBM-DJSA' '-210 ' '0811' Disk
1,1,0 101) *
1,2,0 102) *
1,3,0 103) *
1,4,0 104) *
1,5,0 105) *
1,6,0 106) *
1,7,0 107) *


Which tells me that it can see the disk.


3. Mount the disk:
Make a mount point: "mkdir /mnt/usbdrive" or whatever you like. You can also mount to an ibay.
"mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive"


4. Make the filesystem (format):
"mkdosfs -F32 /dev/sda1" for a windows partition (trouble with some files and symlinks!).
"mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1" for an extended3 Linux partition.


5. Start filling it up!


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