From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:09:13 +0200 Message-ID: From: Rudolf Sykora To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: [9fans] how to connect an usb drive Topicbox-Message-UUID: 39885a54-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hello, please, I have an external harddrive which I use in linux and there, in dmesg, I see this usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3 usb 1-6: New USB device found, idVendor=04fc, idProduct=0c15 usb 1-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1 usb 1-6: Product: USB to Serial-ATA bridge usb 1-6: Manufacturer: Sunplus Technology Inc. usb 1-6: SerialNumber: WDC WD1600 WD-WXE507362861 usb 1-6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices hub 3-0:1.0: over-current change on port 1 usb-storage: device found at 3 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access WDC WD16 00BEVS-00RST0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors: (160 GB/149 GiB) sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 38 00 00 00 sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] 312581808 512-byte hardware sectors: (160 GB/149 GiB) sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 38 00 00 00 sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through sda: sda1 sda3 sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 usb-storage: device scan complete Should I be able to read this drive from plan9? I had a few attempts which were unsuccessful. Can you write a few commands which should do? Thanks Ruda