Another issue to tackle - I have an external 1 TB drive (2 500GB on a RAID). When I plug it into the server, it sees, via /var/log/messages, that a USB device was plugged in, but that's it. fdisk -l doesn't see it. dmesg doesn't do much, either. It is a Western Digital My Book II device. I want to format it and use it for external storage, but can't until I get to it. What is the best way to get to the drive? Thanks. Scott
Simon Jolle "sjolle"
2007-Sep-07 20:01 UTC
[CentOS] Help with External USB drive on RH/Centos 5
Scott Ehrlich wrote:> Another issue to tackle - I have an external 1 TB drive (2 500GB on a > RAID). When I plug it into the server, it sees, via > /var/log/messages, that a USB device was plugged in, but that's it. > fdisk -l doesn't see it. dmesg doesn't do much, either. It is a > Western Digital My Book II device.I don't own this external hard disk, but did a Google Query for you. I quote from "Bits and Pieces: Western Digital "MyBook Pro Edition II" 1 TB & linux" [0]> The cube has a built in, configurable RAID controller and is built > for MACs (but runs on Windows, too). So don't start crying if it's > not yet necessary. First I grabbed one of the seldom Windows boxes > from my office (no Windows at home, but not dark at all) and > installed the magic RAID controller utility shipped with the drive. > One time "reconfiguring" it to "NTFS / RAID1" made it and the device > showed up with 500G after pluggin it to the linux box. A second > reconfiguration (on Windows) to "NTFS / RAID0" and it showed the up > in its full majesty:[0] http://linu.gs/misc/remember/wd-mybook-1TB-on-linux.php