trying to set up my USB 1.1 external one

[rwcitek]

But the external USB drive <fat partition> doesn't. The error is "mount: mount point /mnt/uba1 does not exist"

Boot knoppix without the USB drive attached. Then type this in a root terminal window:

dmesg -c > /dev/null

Attach your USB drive and type the following code:

( set -x
uname -va
cat /etc/knoppix-version
lspci
dmesg
cat /proc/partitions
) >& post.txt

Please post the output of post.txt

Regards,
- Robert
http://www.cwelug.org

[Zoltan]

Can't do this. Don't know enought about Linux.

Did it once when I switched to 'shell 2 ?' as root, but couldn't copy the post.txt to ubb1 (not writeable)
When I switched to shell 5 (the GUI), in which I know how to make ubb1 writeable, couldn't find post.txt from shell 2.
Tried again in GUI shell console; dmesg -c > /dev/null 'Operation not permitted'; tried again with su, but don't know enough to make that work.

Best I can tell uname -va produced Linux Knoppix 2.6.11 #2 SMP
lspci produced two USB controllers and a hub.
cat /proc/partitions showed ubb1 (the pendrive), and ubba (the external Maxtor) 5,6,7 (linux partitions)
but NOT the one I really need, uba9, the large FAT32 partition.
dmesg is 14k (I assume your first instruction would clear that, but I can't make it work).
I do see one line "FAT: invalid media value (0xb9); VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev hda"
That's the NTFS windows "C:\" drive; I can read from it fine.

And in my first try with Kanotix, everything appears to be working fine (uba9 is accessible)
<well, not everything. I can't figure out how to load myconfig...and the two USB devices, while accessible, seem to switch places after a reboot.>

[Zoltan]

OK, figured out a way:

+ uname -va
Linux Knoppix 2.6.11 #2 SMP Thu May 26 20:53:11 CEST 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
+ cat /etc/knoppix-version
4.0 2005-06-08
+ lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82830 830 Chipset Host Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82830 830 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 01)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 41)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM SMBus Controller (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility M6 LY
0000:02:04.0 Communication controller: Conexant HSF 56k HSFi Modem (rev 01)
0000:02:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
0000:02:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
0000:02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 41)
+ dmesg
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
usb 1-1.2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
uba: device 3 capacity nsec 490234752 bsize 512
uba: device 3 capacity nsec 490234752 bsize 512
uba: uba1 < uba5 uba6 uba7 >
usb 1-1.4: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
ubb: device 4 capacity nsec 501759 bsize 512
ubb: device 4 capacity nsec 501759 bsize 512
ubb: ubb1
+ cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name

3 0 58605120 hda
3 1 58597056 hda1
240 0 5251136 cloop0
240 2 4175616 cloop2
180 0 245117376 uba
180 1 1 uba1
180 5 10241406 uba5
180 6 10241406 uba6
180 7 1028128 uba7
180 8 250879 ubb
180 9 250574 ubb1

It's ubb9 (the big FAT partition) that I need to get at.
I've found problems with Kanotix, too, but it mounts that partition just fine.

[rwcitek]

OK, figured out a way

Excellent. And thanks for posting back.

0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 01)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 01)

Knoppix recognizes your USB card. That's good.

uba: uba1 < uba5 uba6 uba7 >
ubb: ubb1

Knoppix found both USB devices. That's good, too.

180 0 245117376 uba
180 1 1 uba1
180 5 10241406 uba5
180 6 10241406 uba6
180 7 1028128 uba7
180 8 250879 ubb
180 9 250574 ubb1

Knoppix sees most but not all of your partitions. I'm wondering if this is a limitation of the USB driver trying to act like a SCSI device. IIRC, SCSI drives can have only 8 partitions. If that hold true for USB also, then you would not have any partitions 8 or higher. I hope I'm mistaken. I'll play around with my USB and FW drives to see if I can partition my drives similar to the way you have yours.

In the mean time, have a look at the partition table of uba:

fdisk -l /dev/uba

Does that list all the partitions?

It's ubb9 (the big FAT partition) that I need to get at.
I've found problems with Kanotix, too, but it mounts that partition just fine.

What happens if you try to mount it manually? That is:

mkdir /mnt/uba9
mount /dev/uba9 /mnt/uba9
ls -la /mnt/uba9
df -HT /mnt/uba9

Regards,
- Robert
http://www.cwelug.org

[Zoltan]

]Excellent. And thanks for posting back.

Well, I'm the one who's asking for help...

fdisk -l /dev/uba

Does that list all the partitions?

Yes, it does. So does QParted, and they show up when I boot with Kanotix.

What happens if you try to mount it manually? That is:
Code:
mkdir /mnt/uba9
mount /dev/uba9 /mnt/uba9
ls -la /mnt/uba9
df -HT /mnt/uba9

su first...I'm learning

after mount /dev/uba9 /mnt/uba9 I get "special device /dev/uba9 does not exist"

Knoppix sees most but not all of your partitions. I'm wondering if this is a limitation of the USB driver trying to act like a SCSI device. IIRC, SCSI drives can have only 8 partitions. If that hold true for USB also, then you would not have any partitions 8 or higher.

I've tried disconnecting the USB devices one at a time; no change.
Knoppix just doesn't like that big FAT partition (although Kanotix has no trouble with it)

[Albretch]

So you are saying that kanotix

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=kanotix

had no issues handling FAT FAT32 partitions from external USB drives?

THis is my problem too

I wasn't able to solve my problems. I had a technician tell me that I had to plug the USB drive before knoppix boots, which made me wonder what was the idea then of using a USB device.

Let me try kanotix then

I have noticed lots of problems with USB/Firewire devices with my knoppix distro 3.9

I am still wondering if there is anyone outthere using knoppix with external devices.

Albretch

[Zoltan]

So you are saying that kanotix

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=kanotix

had no issues handling FAT FAT32 partitions from external USB drives?

That's right, athough I've had problems with Kanotix saving a configuration.

I have two USB devices attached to a laptop during boot, a FAT16 pendrive and an external 250GB Maxtor.

The external Maxtor wound up with 8 partitions, although I only created 4 Linux partitions and one FAT32 partition.

Both are recognized by both Knoppix and Kanotix. The FAT32 partition on the Maxtor is recognized by Knoppix (QParted shows all of them), but I can't seem to get it mounted.

Kanotix mounted all of them.

I'm looking at /dev and /etc/fstab to try to figure out the difference; but I need to spend some time on a linux book first.

What I'm trying to do is create an external drive that will RUN Linux (probably has to initially BOOT from a CD/DVD) without wrting anything to the Windows C:\ drive.

[Albretch]

Actually I have a Maxtor Drive too (a MAXTOR 6L080J4, ATA one) inside a wiebetech enclosure with 2 Firewire connectors and one USB one.

After burning a kanotix copy (I liked it already, for some reason it is faster than Knoppix!! (and I don't think that the reason is that the default lang of most applications is German , which by the way I speak))

I got some info from

http://wiki.kanotix.net/CoMa.php?CoMa=usb-storage

but it appears to be for digital cameras only?

I see the LED on the drive reacting and running /etc/hotplug/usb/usb-storage, shows me

knoppix@1[knoppix]$ cat /var/log/hotplug/usb-storage.log
PRODUCT=5ab/60/1101
KERNEL=2.6.11-kanotix-11
find_partitions_26: Device not found in 25000 ms
Device not found
---
TYPE=usb
ACTION=add
PRODUCT=5ab/60/1101
INTERFACE=8/6/80
DEVICE=/proc/bus/usb/001/003
DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:11.2/usb1/1-2/1-2:2.0
REMOVER=/var/run/usb/%proc%bus%usb%001%003
us_DEFAULTUID=1000
us_PARTITIONS=
us_SPECIALICON=camera
us_SPECIALNAME=camera
us_STORAGEICON=usbpendrive_mount
us_VERSION=20050718-devel

Then I tried a number of things, none of which worked

Could you tell me exactly how is it you mounted you external ATA drive using kanotix?

Thanks
Albretch

[Zoltan]

After burning a kanotix copy (I liked it already, for some reason it is faster than Knoppix!! (and I don't think that the reason is that the default lang of most applications is German Confused, which by the way I speak))

I' auch. Bin aber Schwab, kann also kein Deutsch schreiben

Could you tell me exactly how is it you mounted you external ATA drive using kanotix?

I plugged it in.

Actually, it's plugged in when I boot.

In my case, both Knoppix and Kanotix recognized the USB device(s). On one laptop, I have two Maxtors (One-Touch), on the other, a Maxtor and a pendrive.

My problem is that Knoppix doesn't recognize the FAT partition on one of the Maxtors, while Kanotix does.
Both Knoppix and Kanotix recognize the single NTFS partition on the C:\ drives and the Linux partitions. Both recognize the single FAT16 partition on the Pendrive. Robert has speculated that I may have too many partitions on the drive Knoppix won't read, and I'm beginning to think he may be right. I tried deleting one with QTParted, but it wouldn't let me. I'll probably try deleting one in Windows eventually.

But at the moment I'm working my way through O'Reilly's "Running Linux"; there's too much I don't understand yet.[/quote]

[Albretch]

> Actually, it's plugged in when I boot.

What is then the fun of having a hotpluggable drive when you must have it plugged when you boot?

Albretch