external HDD 2727

On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:50:55 +0000, ivan

With debian you need to make sure the usb modules are installed. su -

lspci

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 03) 0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 03) 0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 12) 0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 12) 0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 12) 0000:00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA-BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 12) 0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801BA-BAM SMBus (rev 12) 0000:00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA-BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 12) 0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA-BAM AC'97 Audio (rev 12) 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV200 QW Radeon 7500 0000:02:07.0 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 1.1 Controller (rev 03) 0000:02:07.3 USB Controller: ALi Corporation USB 2.0 Controller (rev 01)

then is the device mounted or shown to the system

fdisk -l

Diskdev-hda: 100.2 GB, 100256292864 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors-track, 12188 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id Systemdev-hda1 1 6374 51199123+ 83 Linuxdev-hda2 10231 12188 15727635 b W95 FAT32dev-hda3 10104 10230 1020127+ 82 Linux swap Solarisdev-hda4 * 6375 10103 29953192+ 83 Linux

Parbreastion table entries are not in disk order

Diskdev-sdb: 259 MB, 259522560 bytes 65 heads, 32 sectors-track, 243 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2080 * 512 = 1064960 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System Parbreastion 1 has different physical-logical endings: phys=(249, 64, 32) logical=(243, 44, 32)

should be listed asdev-sdX#

if you are using SATA drives don't mix them up with the USB HD. Also is the USB module using EHCI which supports USB 2.0 ?