How is USB meant to work?

Zephaniah · Posted: Mon May 12, 2003 5:35 pm Post subject: How is USB meant to work?

I finally got my USB hard drive working... but it seems to load it up I have to type;

mount /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /mnt/usb

Is this neccesary? Or is there something I'm missing about USB ?

One other thing is that only root can access the mounted USB directory. Do I change this by editing fstab and putting /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 into it with permissions set?

David_Escott · l33t Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 952 Location: Boston, MA

You can almost treat this harddrive as a cd drive for these purposes.

So putting

Zephaniah · Posted: Mon May 12, 2003 8:40 pm Post subject: thanks!

Thanks for the help, it worked very well. Not sure how it works exactly, but now usbdrive comes up in the GNOME disks list, so mounting the drive is simple. Turns out I had to do;

David_Escott · l33t Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 952 Location: Boston, MA

Well I can tell you how it works since that is the easy part :-P

The devfsd stuff just told devfs to make the symlink. For the icon on the desktop what happens is that nautilus scans the /etc/fstab looking for devices with the owner or user option. These devices are mountable by more than just root so if you can mount the device nautilus will show you an icon (if the device is plugged in) or occassionally poll the device to see if anything was added.