Mounting a usb Hard Drive on gentoox 4.0 Home

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nasdak
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Mounting a usb Hard Drive on gentoox 4.0 Home

Post by nasdak »

Hy,

i've made a serach but couldn't find how to mount a usb hard drive with gentoox home 4.0
has the kernel to be recompiled? does anyone know what to do?

Thanks

and btw gentoox rulez :)
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Post by vplayer »

you need to search a little bit more..

viewtopic.php?t=14&highlight=usb+drive

:) it doesnt say gentoox 4.0, but you get the idea.
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nasdak
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Post by nasdak »

hy,
i read this post. i tried what's in it:

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modprobe usb-storage 
modprobe scsi_mod 
modprobe ide-scsi 
modprobe sg 
modprobe sr_mod 
mkdir /mnt/usb 
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

modprobe ... works but i get no sda* in /dev directory :( so there's something wrong

shallax says "SCSI, IDE-SCSI emulation, SCSI-Generic, SCSI-Drive must be compiled into the kernel to allow USB HDDs to function."
is it done with home 4.0 ? or do you have to recompile the kernel?
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Post by orochi »

check your kernel config

cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig
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Post by nasdak »

Thanks
i enabled all with 'SCSI' and am compiling the kernel
hope this will work :)
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Post by nasdak »

well i compiled the kernel with all scsi things on

now all the modprobes won't work (may be normal because it's ine the kernel now?)

but still no sda in /dev :(
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Post by orochi »

did you compile in SCSI as a module or into the kernel?
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