[Voyage-linux] Problem mounting USB HDD

[Protech Caribsurf]

Chance - tried the powered hub and no difference.

Kevin - dmesg reports the USB drive as attached (sda1) but it does not show
up when I try fdisk -l

Guess I need to mount it manually or add a line to /etc/fstab? If that's the
correct approach - I'm new to Linux, so bear with me - what is the content
of the line to add?

Thanks for the help

Derek 

-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Wang [mailto:kjw at pocketeer.rightsock.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 11:39 PM
To: Protech Caribsurf
Cc: 'Kim-man 'Punky' TSE'; voyage-linux at voyage.hk
Subject: Re: [Voyage-linux] Problem mounting USB HDD

 From Protech Caribsurf
> Set up an unused laptop with Voyage MPD 0.8.0 and added the required 
> line to /etc/fstab to mount a CIFS NAS. Worked fine, using MPoD as a
cient.
> 
> Then I decided to try a Tanscend StorJet 500Gb USB HDD so I commented 
> out the NAS mount in /etc/fstab and plugged in the USB drive (also 
> disconnected the LAN) and it will not mount the USB drive. If I use a 
> 4Gb USB thumbdrive it will see it and list the songs on it.  What do I 
> need to do to get the bigger drive working?

check /var/log/messages and dmesg, see if the system detects whether the hdd
is even detected upon plug in.  That will also tell you what device it
appears as (i.e. /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, or something else)

   - Kevin