Re: [SLUG] Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Server 3.0 / USB 2.0 Question

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Tue Dec 30 2003 - 14:21:47 EST


On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Meyer, David R (FL) wrote:

> We are converting a bunch of our Windows servers to Red Hat Adv. 3.0.
> The servers are IBM 345 with SCSI drives in a RAID 5 Config. There is a
> USB 2 port in the back (it was added later) that Red Hat identifies.
> One of the Windows guys has a ton of files on a USB 2 Hard Drive that
> was formatted using FAT32 that he wants to pull off. The drive is
> mounted during boot up, but we can't seem to find it once things are up
> and running.

'mount' should say where and what it is, unless it is unmounted (or
unlisted in mtab). It may be listed in /etc/fstab.

> My question...is this a simple Samba configuration question or am I
> really missing the boat here.

Not Samba if it's local.

> I know SuSE will mount the device and allow you access right away.
> However, we are unable to even find this drive.

USB pretends to be SCSI, so /dev/sd* .

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