Hi *,

I am trying to use my external drive's USB port to connect (mount) using Knoppix

I think it is a USB 1.1 Wiebitech one with a Maxtor Drive inside.

But I can not. What are the steps you need to go to enable my external drive?

Here is some system info for you in case you need it to troubleshoot my problem

Thanks

// __ what I get from dmesg
root@0[knoppix]# dmesg | grep 'usb'
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
usbcore: registered new driver ub
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver

root@0[knoppix]# dmesg | grep 'USB'
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2
ohci_hcd: 2004 Nov 08 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
USB Mass Storage support registered.
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver

root@0[knoppix]# dmesg | grep 'scsi'
ub: sizeof ub_scsi_cmd 64 ub_dev 2504
root@0[knoppix]# dmesg | grep 'SCSI'
SCSI subsystem initialized
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!

root@0[knoppix]# dmesg | grep 'ohci'
ohci_hcd: 2004 Nov 08 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)

root@0[knoppix]# dmesg | grep 'PCI'
Allocating PCI resources starting at 40000000 (gap: 40000000:bec00000)
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb4d0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router default [1106/3099] at 0000:00:00.0
VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:11.1
PCI: Via PIC IRQ fixup for 0000:00:11.1, from 255 to 0
HPT372: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:13.0
HPT37X: using 33MHz PCI clock
ohci_hcd: 2004 Nov 08 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
0000:00:08.0: 3Com PCI 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0xc000. Vers LK1.1.19

root@0[knoppix]# dmesg | grep 'pci'
VP_IDE: VIA vt8233 (rev 00) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci0000:00:11.1
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]

// __ devices /dev/s*
root@0[knoppix]# ls -l /dev/sd*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Apr 14 2001 /dev/sda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Apr 14 2001 /dev/sda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 10 Apr 14 2001 /dev/sda10
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 11 Apr 14 2001 /dev/sda11
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 12 Apr 14 2001 /dev/sda12
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 13 Apr 14 2001 /dev/sda13
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 14 Apr 14 2001 /dev/sda14
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 15 Apr 14 2001 /dev/sda15
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 Apr 14 2001 /dev/sda2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 3 Apr 14 2001 /dev/sda3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 4 Apr 14 2001 /dev/sda4
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 5 Apr 14 2001 /dev/sda5
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 6 Apr 14 2001 /dev/sda6
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 7 Apr 14 2001 /dev/sda7
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 8 Apr 14 2001 /dev/sda8
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 9 Apr 14 2001 /dev/sda9
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 Apr 14 2001 /dev/sdb
...
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 121 Apr 14 2001 /dev/sdh9

// __ from lsmod
root@0[knoppix]# lsmod | grep 'usb'
usbhid 42176 0
usb_storage 63296 0
usbcore 101496 7 usbhid,usb_storage,ub,ohci_hcd,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd

root@0[knoppix]# lsmod | grep 'ohci'
ohci1394 33028 0
ieee1394 300600 2 sbp2,ohci1394
ohci_hcd 21896 0
usbcore 101496 7 usbhid,usb_storage,ub,ohci_hcd,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd

// __ no disks
root@0[knoppix]# fdisk -l

// __ /etc/fstab
root@0[knoppix]# cat /etc/fstab
/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/pts /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/auto/floppy auto user,noauto,exec,umask=000 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/auto/cdrom auto user,noauto,exec,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/auto/cdrom1 auto users,noauto,exec,ro 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
noauto,users,exec 0 0

// __ just the Knoppix CD-ROM
root@0[knoppix]# cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name

240 0 1966656 cloop0