how to connect to an USB disk drive...

[Swapana Ghosh]

Hi

>>Define "disk drive".  That can mean floppy, hard,
>>CD, or tape drives. 

It is a hard disk drive.

>>Also, what brand/model is it?  Is it supported
>>under Linux?  

It is supported by Linux. Model etc i am sorry i can't
provide , i am working remotely with this server. This
is done by somebody else and i have no information
regarding this only i heard it is a 200gb capacity of
hard disk.

>>Did you load 
>>the appropriate modules to support it?  Did it ever
>>work before under 
>>Linux?  

This is brand new hard disk. 

>>Did you mount the filesystem on the drive? 
 >>Is there even a 
>>filesystem at all on the media in the drive?

Yes there are other files system there . But USB drive
is the first time it is attached. Here i am giving the
present status of the server ....

--------------------------X---------------------
[root at server root]# df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available
Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2              3091312    351272   2583008 
12% /
/dev/hdb1             39642712  33582140   4046828 
90% /backup
/dev/hda1              2577392     62528   2383936  
3% /boot
/dev/hdb2             10317860   7638672   2155068 
78% /home
/dev/hdb5              2577392     37712   2408752  
2% /opt
none                    192364         0    192364  
0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdb6              2063504    546440   1412244 
28% /tmp
/dev/hda5              3201980   2384488    654836 
79% /usr
/dev/hdb3              3091312   1137892   1796388 
39% /var
/dev/hdc1             30241928  16700492  12005224 
59% /back-srvr1
/dev/hdc2             30241960  19786852   8918896 
69% /back-srvr2
/dev/hdc3             20161204   1516388  17620676  
8% /back-srvr3
/dev/hdc4             17836516  12938764   3991688 
77% /back-srvr4
[root at server root]#
--------------------------X---------------------

Thanks and regards.
-Swapna



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