USB disk not recognize

[BigRonnyV]

hi sll,

Trying to connect extern usb hdd (1 Gb) to my pi but it's not recognized. Under my w7 it's ok what I'm doing wrong?

[Mobius]

Did you do a "sudo lsusb" to see if the drive was recognized during boot up? If it was, then did you mount the drive?

You need to create a mount point like this: sudo mkdir /mnt/USB_Drive

Then you need to mount the drive like this: sudo mount -o uid=pi,gid=pi /dev/sda1 /mnt/USB_Drive

You can then access the drive like this: ls /mnt/USB_Drive

[pluggy]

1 Gb ? Its a long time since hard drives were that size (late 80's, early 90's ?). If its one of the newer 1000 Gb (1TB) 2.5" usb drives and you're connecting it to the PI , not via a powered USB hub, the pi won't be supplying enough juice for it. Some more information would be useful so we don't have to guess so much.

[BigRonnyV]

Did you do a "sudo lsusb" to see if the drive was recognized during boot up? If it was, then did you mount the drive?

You need to create a mount point like this: sudo mkdir /mnt/USB_Drive

Then you need to mount the drive like this: sudo mount -o uid=pi,gid=pi /dev/sda1 /mnt/USB_Drive

You can then access the drive like this: ls /mnt/USB_Drive

entering sudo mount -o uid=pi,gid=pi /dev/sda1 /mnt/USB_Drive gives an error, so no disk it's a 1 GB disk btw

[BigRonnyV]

1 Gb ? Its a long time since hard drives were that size (late 80's, early 90's ?). If its one of the newer 1000 Gb (1TB) 2.5" usb drives and you're connecting it to the PI , not via a powered USB hub, the pi won't be supplying enough juice for it. Some more information would be useful so we don't have to guess so much.

It's a 1 Tb drive

[BigRonnyV]

Did you do a "sudo lsusb" to see if the drive was recognized during boot up? If it was, then did you mount the drive?

You need to create a mount point like this: sudo mkdir /mnt/USB_Drive

Then you need to mount the drive like this: sudo mount -o uid=pi,gid=pi /dev/sda1 /mnt/USB_Drive

You can then access the drive like this: ls /mnt/USB_Drive

the disk is'nt recognised don't know how to get this recognized

[pluggy]

Is it a 1 TB 2.5" or 3.5" (or more to the point USB powered or not) and is it connected directly to the Pi or through a powered Hub ?. Whats does

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dmesg

say directly after you've connected it ?

The Pi image you're using and the filetype (FAT, NTFS, EXT3 etc) used on said HDD would be nice too